Tag Archive for 'satellite'
January 27th, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
9:07 PM
This morning I discussed my uncertainty in the forecast and where I felt the largest threat for an accumulating snowfall will be most likely. While my uncertainty for the storm was pretty clear, I did feel confident enough to state that the northern interior was going to miss out on this storm. My concern [...]
June 21st, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
10:00 AM
The visible satellite picture this morning shows us that once again, yet another weekend has been spoiled by wet, soggy conditions. However, I do have some good news for this afternoon. Note that over the Hudson Valley and over eastern Pennsylvania that the clouds have started to break up and some clouds are lifting [...]
June 13th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
10:10 AM
The type of pattern the forecast area is being influenced by is at times difficult to forecast for in terms of timing showers and thunderstorms as there are several factors that mixing the atmosphere. For one, take a look at the latest visible satellite image.
The stationary front over the southern Mid Atlantic, is [...]
June 4th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
1:59 PM
This afternoon, the disturbance over the southern Mississippi Valley is pushing towards the Tennessee Valley. As a result, a surface low pressure system is quickly organizing over the Southeast. As you can see with the radar, precipitation is quickly developing over southern Pennsylvania through the Ohio Valley while there is clearly a low level [...]
June 4th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
9:02 AM
The stationary front this morning has finally pushed south of New Jersey, which puts the entire forecast area in a cool, marine dominated air mass for the next 48 hours. The water vapor satellite gives us an excellent picture into what is going on and what will play out through Friday. The disturbance that [...]
June 1st, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
6:42 AM
Through this week, the pattern will exhibit all the possible outcomes that the forecast area will see through this week all of which will be influenced by the position of the trough over the Great Lakes and the ridge over the western Atlantic through this period. Already this morning, we can see the evolution [...]
April 3rd, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
6:26 AM
Today would not be the day to open two new baseball stadiums in the New York City area as a rainy and stormy day and evening is expected. Currently, a warm front is progressing northward over the Maryland and Delaware with a steady light rain over much of the forecast area this morning. The [...]
April 2nd, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
7:40 AM
The latest visible satellite image clearly shows that fog has developed throughout much of the forecast area with dense fog advisories issued for much of the region. The dense fog has developed due to a combination of lingering low level moisture from a few showers early this morning and very light winds. The good [...]
April 1st, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
7:00 AM
This morning much of the forecast area remains north of a warm front that is currently over southern Virginia. A new wave of low pressure is developing over western North Carolina this morning that will likely prevent the warm front from moving much further north, thus an east to southeasterly wind can be expected [...]
March 31st, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
8:28 PM
Most of you who read this blog on a daily basis (and thank you for that!) know that I like to rely more on observations, radar data, and satellite data rather than leaning on model guidance. Well, the forecast for tomorrow is no different as we can clearly see a trend beginning to show [...]