Tag Archive for 'unstable air mass'
October 9th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
8:33 PM
This evening, a cold front is ever so slowly moving through Pennsylvania and will eventually push into eastern Pennsylvania in the next few hours. A very weak area of low pressure is now over central Pennsylvania and is moving towards the central Hudson Valley. As the low pressure system moves to the northeast, the [...]
August 11th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
7:45 AM
The cold front has stalled over the forecast area this morning and will continue to linger over the region through this afternoon. The air mass over the forecast area continues to be very warm and humid. Dew points already range from the mid 60’s to lower 70’s over the forecast area and will continue [...]
August 11th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
5:15 AM
Some fairly significant changes will be developing over the next 24 hours that will once again bring more wet conditions to the forecast area. However, before those changes take hold, hot conditions will return to the forecast area.
A cold front will slowly drift off the New Jersey coast through the morning and into the [...]
August 8th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
5:15 AM
A war is about to begin over the Mid Atlantic and Great Lakes that will pit two volatile air masses against each other. Over the Southeast and Gulf Coast, a hot, humid, and unstable air mass is building and heading north while over eastern Canada; cool, dry air is poised to dive south. The [...]
August 6th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
5:15 AM
Over the next three days, the stage will be set for a battle between relatively cool, dry Canadian air to the north and west and a hot, humid, unstable tropical air mass to the south and east. Over the forecast area, a stationary boundary will waver north and south each day with various impacts [...]
July 18th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
6:41 AM
After an active evening and overnight period of showers and thunderstorms, which produced damaging hail, wind gusts, and flash flooding, the trough responsible for the thunderstorms is now beginning to lift into eastern Canada. As a result, the forecast area will be under the influence of sinking air, which will support weak high pressure [...]
June 18th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
7:39 AM
A clash of air masses is unfolding right over the forecast area as the marine air mass that has been over the forecast area the past several days slowly is eroded from the region and off the coast. The latest surface map best describes the current situation. High pressure remains off the New England [...]
June 8th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
9:38 PM
A preview of the a potentially very active afternoon was seen this afternoon over much of southern Monmouth and Ocean counties of New Jersey this afternoon. A weak disturbance, a remnant from the MCS that impacted much of the Mid West early this morning, sparked off a cluster of showers and thunderstorms. These thunderstorms [...]
June 8th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
7:28 AM
The weather pattern for this summer certainly is developing an active characteristic as yet another week of persistent threats of showers and thunderstorms can be expected.
There are a lot of interesting features to examine on the water vapor this morning, so lets dive right in! A trough over the Canadian Maritimes continues to slowly [...]
November 5th, 2008 by Steven DiMartino
Get ready to say good bye to the ridge in the East or at least the sustained ridge in the East.
A strong cold front supported by a strengthening upper level low and deepening trough will drive through the forecast area on Saturday afternoon. There is a significant potential for strong to severe thunderstorms with this [...]