Tag Archive for 'Tennessee Valley'
March 14th, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
4:10 PM
Another round of rainfall is expected tonight with this storm, however the worst conditions are over.
The storm developed initially as a frontal boundary off the New Jersey coast. As a strong upper low started to drive towards the Mississippi Valley, the low and eventually mid level winds began to veer to the southeast off [...]
March 12th, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
8:59 PM
The coastal low is clearly becoming the primary low pressure system this evening as very strong lifting is developing off the coast along with a classic satellite signature of cyclogenesis.
The radar this hour is clearly showing an area of very heavy rain just south of Cape May, New Jersey moving north towards the coast. [...]
March 11th, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
4:25 PM
The storm is starting to organize over the Plains, Gulf Coast, and Southeast. The model guidance at this point is in very strong agreement for a widespread heavy rainfall starting tomorrow afternoon and continuing on through Sunday morning with rainfall amounts by Monday morning ranging from 2 inches to as much as 5.5 inches [...]
March 11th, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
8:00 AM
The temperatures may be warmer, but the active storm track that the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan area experienced in February is returning once again.
The easterly fetch developing at the mid and lower levels of the atmosphere is already influencing the northern Mid Atlantic as Atlantic moisture moves into the coastal plain. The [...]
March 10th, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
4:19 PM
Clouds are already building over much of the northern Mid Atlantic this afternoon in response to the increasing moisture from the Atlantic as the high pressure system that has produced great weather conditions the past few days now exits into the Atlantic. A weak mid level disturbance was able to use some of this [...]
March 9th, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
4:30 PM
A significant rainfall event is expected to begin late on Thursday and is expected to continue through early next week. All model guidance is coming into strong agreement on the development of a long duration rain event for all of the northern Mid Atlantic.
A strong upper low currently over the central Plains will slowly [...]
March 7th, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
9:14 AM
A stretch of great weather conditions continues today with strong high pressure over the Ohio Valley. The high pressure system, producing a moderating west and northwesterly wind, will slowly move to the East coast over the next several days. The shift in the high pressure system to the Tennessee Valley and eventually the southern [...]
March 4th, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
7:16 AM
Yet another coastal low is slow to leave the northern Mid Atlantic as mid and high level clouds remain over much of the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan area.
Atlantic moisture will continue to rotate through the region leading to broken to overcast cloud cover through tomorrow afternoon. A series of weak disturbances will [...]
March 2nd, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
7:48 AM
A strong area of low pressure is rapidly developing along the Gulf Coast, however this storm is staying far enough south and east to not have a major impact on the region’s weather.
The “pattern changer” as I like to call it is not over the Gulf Coast however but the West coast as a [...]
March 1st, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
6:45 AM
The water vapor this morning shows that one major storm is finally exiting and another is on the way over the southern Plains.
The winter storm over New England is the result of the lingering upper low from late weeks winter storm that interacted with another Sub Tropical disturbance over the Atlantic. This low pressure [...]