August 14th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
5:15 AM
Over the past 48 hours, many locations have received several inches of rainfall while other locations have received very little rainfall at all. The complex factors driving this pattern have been seen to great details as mesoscale boundaries, jet streaks, and mid/upper level disturbances have each played a part in setting up areas of [...]
June 4th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
9:17 AM
The tropical Atlantic remains quiet this morning as strong westerly upper level winds dominates much of the tropical Atlantic. The strong westerly winds are producing shear throughout the Tropics which will continue to inhibit development of any tropical system. Once again, I am going to keep an eye on the Gulf of Mexico this [...]
November 25th, 2008 by Steven DiMartino
By the way I have gotten my email account pounded this afternoon, I could already tell that the models were brewing up some mischief for this weekend. The question is if the models are on to something or if the solution we are seeing is pure fantasy.
The ECMWF is the main culprit here. Let [...]
November 14th, 2008 by Steven DiMartino
Last night I discussed how it is unwise to jump to conclusions about model solutions in the extended period. Well, last night all the model runs basically switched back to cold again with a rather chilly start to December shown along with plenty of storm potential.
However, before we get to that interesting time period, [...]