Long Waves And Blocking Patterns

If you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute.” This is probably one of the most used and often true statements made about the weather in our part of the world. We live in the zone that stretches right around the globe, where warm air moving northward battles it out with cold air surging

Taking A Look At La Niña – for Sep. 16, 2010

As summer comes to an end the most common question I have received is about what we should expect the coming winter to be like. Long-range forecasting is tough at the best of times, and most forecasts beyond 30 days are usually not more statistically correct than simply doing a coin toss, but – there


Issued: Monday, June 7, 2010 Covering: June 9 –June 16

The active weather pattern that seems to be bringing more clouds than sun and plenty of chances for rain looks like it will continue at least for another week, but there are some signs that the pattern might be changing. Currently we see a very strong jet stream coming in off the Pacific and zooming

Still Looking At An El Niño Winter?

Figure 1 Last issue, I said that we would take a break from El Nińo and take our yearly look at Christmas weather, but I just realized that there is still one more issue before Christmas, so let’s finish up our El Nińo discussion. In the previous articles we discussed how the “normal” flow across


Cool Weather To Continue Into May?

Ithink if I had to describe April’s weather in just a few words it would be “the same old thing.” During the first four months of 2009 we have basically been stuck in the same general weather pattern. This pattern is keeping any really warm air bottled up to our south, but at the same