El Nino is on the way, and it looks like it will be a strong event...
The equatorial Pacific Ocean is transitioning into El Nino conditions (i.e., warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures) and signs point to a strong event by the summer and fall seasons with big implications on tropical activity in the Atlantic Basin. Looking ahead, it appears this El Nino event may even last into the upcoming winter season of 2026-2027 which no doubt would have some implications across the continental US.
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After our damp and chilly weekend, the weather will turn warmer today across the Mid-Atlantic region and there will be some shower activity in many areas to the south of the PA/MD border. The unsettled weather pattern can bring showers to all areas of the Mid-Atlantic later tonight and on Wednesday, but then it turns drier again for the late week, and the weekend is looking quite nice from this vantage point.
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After our damp and chilly weekend, the weather will turn warmer today across the Mid-Atlantic region and there will be some shower activity in many areas to the south of the PA/MD border. The unsettled weather pattern can bring showers to all areas of the Mid-Atlantic later tonight and on Wednesday, but then it turns drier again for the late week, and the weekend is looking quite nice from this vantage point.
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After our damp and chilly weekend, the weather will turn warmer today across the Mid-Atlantic region and there will be some shower activity in many areas to the south of the PA/MD border. The unsettled weather pattern can bring showers to all areas of the Mid-Atlantic later tonight and on Wednesday, but then it turns drier again for the late week, and the weekend is looking quite nice from this vantage point.
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It was during the height of the Cold War and a powerful solar storm could have led to a disastrous military conflict between the US and Soviet Union if not for the early efforts of the US Air Force to monitor solar activity. On May 23rd, 1967, a solar storm took place that was so powerful, it jammed radar and radio communications in polar regions and the US Air Force actually began to prepare aircraft for war thinking the nation’s surveillance radars were being jammed by the Soviet Union. Fortunately, space weather forecasters in the military suspected there might be another cause and they relayed information about the possibility that a solar storm could have been the reason for the disrupted radar and radio communications. As it turned out, this information was enough to keep the planes on the ground and the US avoided a potential nuclear weapon exchange with the Soviet Union.
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The most intense geomagnetic storm of the 20th Century took place during solar cycle 15 in a 3-day period from May 13-15 in 1921. The storm occurred before the widespread electrical dependence of infrastructure that we have in today’s world, but the impact from an extraordinarily powerful coronal mass ejection was still quite extensive. The storm’s electrical current sparked a number of fires around the world including one near the Grand Central Terminal in New York City. In addition, auroras appeared throughout the eastern US creating brightly lit nighttime skies and telegraph service virtually stopped in its tracks due to blown fuses and damaged equipment. Research in recent years has suggested that this super solar storm of May 1921 was equally as intense as the granddaddy of all super storms in recorded history – the “Carrington Event of 1859”.
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The next few days will be warm across the region with daily highs likely within a few degrees of 80. By the weekend, high pressure ridging will build into the eastern states, and the result will be a big-time warm up. In fact, temperatures around here can reach the 90-degree mark for afternoon highs on both Saturday and Sunday, and the summer-like warmth will continue into early next week.
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What a difference a week makes...after last week’s unseasonably chilly weather, the week ahead will feature summer-like warmth and dry conditions with temperatures this afternoon reaching the lower 80’s. The warmest days of the week are likely to be tomorrow and Thursday and 90-degree highs are on the table for spots and there can be scattered showers and thunderstorms.
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In the wake of a cold frontal passage, today will turn out to be mainly sunny, dry, and mild, but the unsettled weather pattern will bring us another shower threat on Wednesday and there can be a PM thunderstorm as well. The upper-level trough of low pressure that will generate our unsettled weather conditions at mid-week will hang around until the end of the week, but important changes will then take place this weekend. Upper-level ridging of high pressure that has been stuck over the western states in recent days will move eastward and reach the northeastern part of the nation by later in the weekend. In fact, this high pressure system will intensify markedly early next week and this can result in 90+ degree afternoon highs in the Sunday, Monday, Tuesday time period across some portions of the I-95 corridor. The big-time warm up is likely to be a 3-day affair and temperatures should return to more seasonal levels during the middle of next week.
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In the wake of a cold frontal passage, today will turn out to be mainly sunny, dry, and mild, but the unsettled weather pattern will bring us another shower threat on Wednesday and there can be a PM thunderstorm as well. The upper-level trough of low pressure that will generate our unsettled weather conditions at mid-week will hang around until the end of the week, but important changes will then take place this weekend. Upper-level ridging of high pressure that has been stuck over the western states in recent days will move eastward and reach the northeastern part of the nation by later in the weekend. In fact, this high pressure system will intensify markedly early next week and this can result in 90+ degree afternoon highs in the Sunday, Monday, Tuesday time period across some portions of the I-95 corridor. The big-time warm up is likely to be a 3-day affair and temperatures should return to more seasonal levels during the middle of next week.
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