There will be two different parts to the current winter weather event with phase one already well underway and phase two coming from later today through Tuesday morning. Phase one featured some accumulating snow south of the PA/MD border earlier today and has had very limited precipitation so far north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Phase two will involve heavier precipitation amounts from later today into tomorrow morning as low pressure heads towards the region from the Lower Mississippi Valley. This second phase will generally feature ‘plain’ rain across the immediate DC metro region, but icing will be a big concern across much of PA, northern NJ and NYC where temperatures will hover around the freezing mark throughout the night as precipitation intensities pick up.
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Low pressure is located off the New Jersey coastline at mid-day and it will intensify over the next several hours as upper-level energy moves in overhead. Mixed precipitation is rotating around the surface low and will become mainly snow this afternoon and evening as colder air wraps into the system. Some snow will fall today and tonight in the Philly metro region, but the highest amounts will likely be confined to eastern Bucks County near the Delaware River and to the north and east of there which will put the northern half of New Jersey and the NYC metro region in prime zones for more significant accumulations from this western Atlantic storm. Little to no snow accumulation is likely in Chester County (SE PA) and in areas to the south of the PA/MD border.
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A long duration winter weather event is underway in the Mid-Atlantic region with a cold “plain” rain south of the PA/MD border, freezing rain and sleet across southeast and east-central PA, and snow is a factor in northeastern PA, interior upstate NJ and in the NYC metro region. As colder air wraps around a very slowly moving and intensifying low pressure system later tonight, accumulating snow will become an increasingly important factor for most areas and accumulations are likely; especially, north of the PA/MD border. In fact, there is the chance that some spots in the Mid-Atlantic region experience significant snowfall amounts on Monday and Monday night as intense mesoscale heavy snow bands are likely to form during this event.
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The major storm that slammed into the west coast a few days ago will result in a long duration winter weather event for the Mid-Atlantic region from late tonight into Monday night. This system is now generating blizzard conditions across the Dakotas and heavy snow will extend into the Upper Midwest later today and tonight. The upper-level feature associated with this storm has made its farthest push to the north into South Dakota and it will now be forced to shift to the east-southeast by an “atmospheric roadblock” in the form of upper-level high pressure ridging over southern Canada. The end result will be a cold air mass stuck in place in the lowest levels of the Mid-Atlantic region when precipitation arrives late tonight/early Sunday and this will lead to a period of sleet and/or freezing rain at the onset of this long duration event in much of the DC-to-Philly-to-NYC corridor. A change to plain rain is likely in many areas along the immediate I-95 corridor later tomorrow and there even be a slackening off of the precipitation early tomorrow night. Late tomorrow night and during the day on Monday, colder air will wrap around into intensifying low pressure off the Mid-Atlantic coastline and this will result in a changeover to snow in most areas and significant snow accumulations are possible; primarily, north of the PA/MD border.
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The major storm that slammed into the west coast a couple of days ago will result in a long duration winter weather event for the Mid-Atlantic region from later this weekend into early next week. This system now over the interior western US will head northeast towards the Northern Plains over the next day or so and will generate significant snow this weekend from the Northern Rockies to the Upper Midwest. It is at this point in time that this system will run into an “atmospheric roadblock” in the form of upper-level high pressure ridging over southern Canada and switch from a northeasterly direction to east-southeast. The end result will be a cold air mass in place in the Mid-Atlantic region when precipitation arrives later Saturday night and low pressure is likely to spin just off the coastline as late as late in the day on Monday. This long lasting winter weather event could feature some ice and/or snow accumulations at the front end for much of the Mid-Atlantic region – perhaps plain rain for awhile in the middle – and then potentially significant accumulating snow on the back end.
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One strong storm is producing heavy snowfall across the Upper Midwest today and it’ll generate some very strong winds later today into Thursday in a large section of the country extending from the Great Lakes/Ohio Valley to the Mid-Atlantic/NE US. Another powerful storm continues to wreak havoc across much of the western third of the nation with heavy coastal rain and significant inland snows. This second system will push to the northeast over the next couple of days, but once it reaches the Dakotas, it’ll run into an “atmospheric roadblock” and be “forced” to slide southeast towards the Mid-Atlantic/NE US coastline by later this weekend into early next week. The result of this storm track will allow for cold air to be in place in the Mid-Atlantic/NE US when the storm arrives later this weekend and this raises the chance for snow and ice. The threat for snow and ice will continue into Monday for this part of the nation as the surface low spins around just off the coastline of the Mid-Atlantic/NE US.
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One major storm is bringing heavy snowfall to parts of the Rocky Mountains and central Plains and another is about to slam into the west coast of the US. Heavy snow from the first storm continues across the Rockies and has stretched into the central Plains and it’ll make a push into the Upper Midwest on Wednesday. This same system will then head eastward and drag a strong cold front across the Mid-Atlantic/NE US tomorrow evening and the winds will become quite strong with gusts past 40 mph. The second major storm will rapidly intensify before making landfall later tonight near the California/Oregon border and it will bring heavy rain and damaging winds to coastal sections and tremendous snows to inland higher elevation locations of the Sierra Nevada mountain range where the snow will be measured in feet over the next few days. This second storm will cross the nation and arrive in the Mid-Atlantic/NE US this weekend where there will be a lot of cold air and accumulating ice and snow could be the result in interior sections.
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Two big storms will impact much of the nation this week in a week that features the busiest travel day of the year and, of course, the Thanksgiving Day holiday. The first system will bring about another “Denver-to-Minneapolis” snowstorm over the next couple of days – similar to a storm back in October. This system will then drag a cold front across the Mid-Atlantic/NE US later Wednesday and the winds will become quite strong – too strong for any balloons to be used in the Thursday parade in New York City. The second storm of note will become a powerhouse system in the hours before it makes landfall later tomorrow night near the Oregon/California border region. In fact, this Pacific Storm will intensify dramatically in the 24 hours preceding landfall – perhaps to what meteorologists call “bombogenesis” levels which requires a drop of 24 millibars in a 24-hour period. This second storm will bring damaging winds and heavy rain to coastal sections of Oregon/California and tremendous snows to inland higher elevation locations such as the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The second storm will trek all the way across the nation and likely result in ice and snow for the Mid-Atlantic/NE US during the upcoming weekend.
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Hurricane Dorian has regained some strength in the overnight hours and has been re-classified as a “major” category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds at 115 mph. It is moving slowly to the NNE at 8 mph and is currently just off the coast of South Carolina. There will be a major impact over the next 24 hours by Hurricane Dorian in the coastal Carolinas in places like Charleston, South Carolina and Wilmington and the Outer Banks in North Carolina. By mid-day Friday, Hurricane Dorian will be near the Outer Banks of North Carolina and it will become increasingly influenced by an advancing upper-level trough over the Great Lakes. As a result, Hurricane Dorian will accelerate to the northeast on Friday and pass well to the east of the Mid-Atlantic, but some impacts are likely that will in many ways resemble a “nor’easter” with the greatest impacts along coastal sections. Looking ahead, by no means does it look like the Atlantic Basin tropical season will slow down with the departure of Hurricane Dorian as numerous tropical waves are lining up over the continent of Africa.
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Hurricane Dorian remains a category 2 storm at midday and it has picked up a bit of forward speed now moving NNW at 9 mph with 105 mph maximum sustained winds and a central pressure of 964 millibars. Gusty squalls are rotating around Hurricane Dorian and impacting much of the coastal region in northeastern Florida as well as coastal sections of Georgia, South and North Carolina. Hurricane Dorian is likely to at least maintain its category 2 strength as it moves closer to the Carolina coastline and it very well could undergo some intensification as it heads over warmer waters of the Gulf Stream and leaves “upwelling-induced” cooler water behind. By early Friday, Hurricane Dorian will move to a position over the Outer Banks (NC) and will become increasingly influenced by an advancing trough of low pressure in the upper atmosphere. This upper-level feature will cause it to accelerate to the northeast passing well to the east of the Mid-Atlantic region on Friday, but important impacts are still on the table for coastal sections.
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