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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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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Much of the week ahead will be rather cool and unsettled across the northeastern part of the nation with a persistent upper-level trough of low pressure sitting nearby. This upper air pattern will keep temperatures generally suppressed to below-normal levels in the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast US and there will be a shower threat from time-to-time. By the weekend, important changes will take place as the upper-level trough over the northeastern US retreats off to the northeast and an upper-level ridge of high pressure edges its way into the area from the western states. This ridge will intensify early next week, and the result could be 90+ degrees in the Sunday/Monday/Tuesday time period in places along the I-95 corridor. Looking beyond, it appears that the big-time warm up early next week will not last too much longer as a frontal system next mid-week is likely to return temperatures to more seasonal levels.
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A cold front clears through the region today and after the chance of early day showers, partial sunshine should return in the afternoon across the area. It looks dry on Tuesday and there can be another shower threat at mid-week as an upper-level trough settles over the eastern states. Temperatures remain mild through much of the week and then turn quite warm as we head into the upcoming weekend.
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A cold front clears through the region today and after the chance of early day showers, partial sunshine should return in the afternoon across the area. It looks dry on Tuesday and there can be another shower threat at mid-week as an upper-level trough settles over the eastern states. Temperatures remain mild through much of the week and then turn quite warm as we head into the upcoming weekend.
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A cold front clears through the region today and after the chance of early day showers, partial sunshine should return in the afternoon across the area. It looks dry on Tuesday and there can be another shower threat at mid-week as an upper-level trough settles over the eastern states. Temperatures remain mild through much of the week and then turn quite warm as we head into the upcoming weekend.
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