Northeast Pummeled By Snow
National Forecast, Image: NOAA
TV forecasters in Philadelphia and Scranton, Pennsylvania, New York City, Binghamton, Buffalo, and Rochester, New York are preparing viewers for another winter storm that could dump another foot of the white stuff in some locations.
It’s been a messy winter for the Northeast. Washington D.C. was shut down for almost an entire week because of the amount of snow on the ground in the nation’s capital.
Snow Forecast, Image: NOAA
Storm after storm has been forming in the Gulf of Mexico, picking up moisture from the tropics and directing it toward the East Coast of the United States. Yesterday, I talked about the two weather patterns that have been colliding over the United States this winter: El Nino and the Arctic Oscillation. See yesterday’s MYL blog for more information on that.
Meanwhile, tune in to your local TV forecasters across the US for your latest winter forecast.
-Dawn Brown
2009 New Year’s Eve Forecast
Today's National Forecast, Image: NOAA
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A rain storm that affected many of the Gulf States has now moved off the coast of the Carolinas this New Year’s.
TV forecasters are still going with a chance for rain/snow mix in the big cities of New York and Boston tonight,
National Radar Image, Image: NOAA
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even though, as you can see, a lot of the rain has moved off the coast. Stay tuned to your local TV forecast for the latest. You can see another storm has moved into the Portland area. As far as other New Year’s hot spots; click on the links below for the TV forecast in your favorite town to celebrate ringing in the New Year!
-Dawn Brown
Weather for Your Turkey Travel Day
Southeast US Radar, Image: NOAA (Image is OLD!)
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Thunderstorms are delaying travel in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area this Wednesday morning. The FAA’s website has all the latest travel delays across the country. Check it before you go to the airport. If the sphere on the map is green where you are flying, you are good to go. If not, click on the yellow or orange sphere, and it will tell you the amount of the delay and the reason for it.
Currently, there are also weather delays in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia and D.C..
No delays in the Midwest so far, but with an arctic air mass advancing toward the Great Lakes region over the next two days, minor accumulations of lake effect snow are a possibility.
The previous link shows you another awesome graphic from USA Today explaining lake effect snow.
Lake Effect Snow Explainer, Image: NOAA
As you can see, it takes a delicate combination of cold air near the surface, a cold, straight wind blowing across a warmer body of water, and some high ground on the leeward side of the lake for lake effect snow to occur.
Forecasters in northern Michigan, and parts of Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York will be in for some interesting weather this holiday weekend. Go to the GET YOUR LOCAL TV FORECAST! link on the right hand menu bar, find the city your in, or where you are traveling, and follow their forecast.
I hope you and your family have a Happy Thanksgiving.
-Dawn Brown
Cold Air in Central Plain, East Coast Storms
Cold air continues to push into the heartland. Springfield, Missouri is under a freeze watch.
From the National Weather Service in Springfield:
...FREEZING TEMPERATURES BECOMING MORE LIKELY... .AN UNSEASONABLY COLD AIRMASS WILL TRANSLATE ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS THIS WEEKEND. AS A CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM SETTLES ACROSS THE OZARKS EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...WINDS WILL BECOME LIGHT AND SKIES WILL CLEAR. TEMPERATURES WILL RESPOND BY FALLING INTO THE UPPER 20S TO NEAR 30 IN AREAS OF CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.
In upstate New York and Pennsylvania, TV forecasters are alerting folks to the possibility of stormy weather all weekend. Here’s your TV forecast from CBS New York and Scranton, Pennsylvania.
-Dawn Brown