Issued: Monday, June 29, 2009 Covering: July 1 –July 8

Last week I indicated that we could see some dicey weather last Friday as a trough of low pressure moved through our region. But as usual this year Mother Nature had to take things to the extreme again. As the trough pushed through our region an upper low caught up with it and helped to



Issued: Friday, May 15, 2009 Covering: May 20 –May 28

It’s an early deadline this week, due to the long weekend, so this forecast was put together a little earlier than usual and therefore confidence levels are going to be fairly low. There are two pieces of good news in this week’s forecast. The first piece of good news is that the weather models are

Issued: Monday, May 4, 2009 Covering: May 6 –May 13

The weather for this forecast period is not looking that great, but it is not looking that bad either. For most of this forecast period we are going to be dealing with weak weather. That is, there will not be any strong areas of low or high pressure around to dominate the weather. For the



Issued: Monday, March 23, 2009 Covering: March 25 –April 1

The models certainly were correct over a week ago when they started to point towards a major spring storm for our region early this week. The problem now is trying to create a forecast for the upcoming week when this storm system is still evolving. The reason creating a forecast will be so difficult is


Issued: Monday, March 2, 2009 Covering: March 4 –March 11

It is going to be a tougher-than-usual forecast for this week because there don’t appear to be any large weather systems dominating our forecast. Last week’s ridge of arctic high pressure pushed off to the southeast pretty much as expected and behind the ridge, weak areas of low pressure began moving in from the west.



Issued: Monday, February 2, 2009 Covering: February 4 –February 11

Last week’s forecast turned out pretty good, so let’s hope this week’s forecast fares just as well. It looks like my gut feeling about cold weather to start the week was correct, but fortunately, it doesn’t look like this cold weather will stick around. By Wednesday a strong area of low pressure will cross through