Tag Archive for 'greens'
August 12th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
9:35 PM
A disturbance at 500 MB moved through the forecast area today with areas of scattered showers that produced moderate to heavy rain in some locations. However, as much as some areas were impacted by periods of heavy rain, other locations received next to no precipitation at all. There are several factors on why the [...]
March 26th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
7:13 AM
A break in the dry and cool weather is beginning and a good dose of rainfall will be moving through the forecast area this afternoon and again on Saturday night through Sunday.
An area of low pressure over the Tennessee Valley continues to organize this morning and will move towards the forecast area by [...]
March 17th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
7:14 AM
While many think of Spring as a time of green grass returning, warmer temperatures, and a quieter weather pattern; Spring also means the return for the difficult forecast phenomena of a back door cold front. A back door cold front is basically a cold front the develops over the Canadian Maritimes and drives southwestward [...]
March 3rd, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
5:41 AM
The following snow and wind observations are from the National Weather Service. There were many areas that received heavy snow via the mesoscale banding that developed within this storm, however there were also some areas that received less than expected because of the influence of mesoscale banding. Overall, verification came in rather well on [...]
February 18th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
6:02 AM
A very strong low pressure system with a 996 MB low will continue to intensify this afternoon moving into the eastern Great Lakes. Strengthening southerly wind will continue to warm the forecast area above freezing as a warm front approaches the forecast area. The precipitation with the warm front is not very organization this [...]
February 4th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
6:19 AM
An area of low pressure and an inverted trough produced a moderate to heavy snow event over the forecast area. While a portion of the snow did not stick until the evening, the snowfall still caused issues on the roadways. If colder air was in place, one could make the argument that this storm [...]
January 29th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
5:40 AM
For most of the forecast area, the forecasted ice and snow totals verified via reports from the National Weather Service. The one area that busted was in northeastern Pennsylvania where 6 to 10 inches of snow was expected. Instead, most locations in extreme northeastern Pennsylvania only received around 4 inches. When I looked back [...]
January 27th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
11:43 PM
While everyone has been debating about the trends of models (yes, there IS a cold “correction” to the guidance), what has me more interested is what is happening right in front of our noses.
There are several trends over the past few hours that I want to point out.
The first image is the [...]