Posted by Danielle Niles Yesterday at 9:20 am

The clean up continues across the Mid-Atlantic this Monday morning after a historic winter storm brought feet of heavy snow to the region this past Friday and Saturday. Baltimore, MD saw just over 2 FEET of snow from the storm, bringing their seasonal snowfall total to 60.4″, 4 FEET above what they would have normally received by now! Check out some of the other snowfall totals across the Mid-Atlantic! Here in New England, we’ve had above average snowfall amounts thus far this winter too, with Boston, MA running 3.7″ above the average, and Burlington, VT, an impressive 17.8″ above the norm.

With snow on the mind, we now turn our attention to the central U.S. where another storm is taking shape, slated to impact the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast by midweek. We’ll talk more about that in a second, but for now let’s focus on today’s weather -and the details are pretty straightforward. Continue Reading…

Posted by Joe Joyce February 6, 2010 (3 days ago) at 8:50 am

High Pressure will keep us dry and seasonably cool to start the week, but we will need to put the historic Mid-Atlantic weekend storm quickly behind us. That is because the next storm to come down the pike will have more of an impact for our region in the form of an accumulating plowable snowfall and strong winds at the coast for the midweek! It looks like this storm could be another Blizzard! This will make it the 4th Blizzard this year for the east coast. Include the three Blizzards which have occurred in the Midwest/Plains…that makes 7 Blizzards this winter!! The Year of the Blizzard! The atmosphere is obviously loaded with energy thanks impart to the El Nino in the Pacific and Rising High Pressures in the North Atlantic…creating a jetstream which is primed and loaded for storms! Rising pressure in Greenland has helped to create blocking in the atmosphere creating a storm track which has been pushing storms south of New England and we have missed out on several storms. The question for this midweek storm is does this pattern continue with another major storm staying south…or does this pattern start to shift just enough that we finally get into the action??? The chances of a good thump of snow are becoming more likely. More On the Upcoming Midweek Storm Inside! Continue Reading…

Posted by Tim Kelley February 5, 2010 (4 days ago) at 3:41 pm

As we watch developing low pressure evolve into a blizzard on the east coast today, a super storm is causing a blizzard in eastern Newfoundland right now, Friday February 5, 2010. The central pressure of the storm centered 46° North Lat / 43° West Long is down to 947 millibars, or 27.96 inches of mercury.
This satellite image from the Canada Met Offfice shows both storms.

What is wind? Wind is air moving from high to low pressure. This is about as much wind as one hemisphere can handle!
Pleas post any comments on wind or snow you see from any source. Inquiring minds need to know.
Here a couple links to search for weather extremes.
National Weather Service (see local observations and Public Information Statements)
National Buoy Date Center
Canada Met Office
For us in New England, the massive storm south of Greenland, keeps the New Jersey Blizzard from coming north. This is the Greenland Block.. keeping us cold and dry this weekend.
(Sunday Update.. storm totals below, 41″ Garrett County MD looks like max)
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