Looking into the Crystal Ball as 2010 Approaches

Posted by Joe Joyce December 27, 2009 at 9:58 am

After two Blizzards in a Week from the Mid-Atlantic to the Northern Plains, 2/3rds of the nation experienced a White Christmas. Ho Ho Ho! The pattern of extremes is showing no signs of letting go of it’s grip on the nation. More cold and snow is likely in the coming two weeks as pressures will be rising in the North Atlantic, creating blocking and a wavy pattern to the jetstream which is good for storm development followed by cold blasts of air. Look inside for a full weather discussion if you dare! Read more

Low Barometer- And a Beach Story- June 29,2009

Posted by Tim Kelley June 29, 2009 at 9:10 pm

Tonight we are tracking a slow moving 996 millibar Low near Burke Vermont.
Your barometer at home read around 29.4 to 29.6″, as low as it gets in June with no hurricane around.
This is the same energy that moved in Friday and spent the weekend.
Here is my beach story from Saturday June 27, 2009, maybe you can relate.
We arrived To Bright Blue Sky Duxbury Beach 10 AM.
Baby seed cumulus had already formed inland Plymouth County as seen in the 10 AM photo looking west.

Also at 10 AM, we could see cirrus outflow from another June
Nor’Easter that is forming near benchmark.
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Tornado~Frost~Tornado Cycle Goes On- June 3, 2009

Posted by Tim Kelley June 3, 2009 at 8:31 pm

We are now into four consecutive weeks of weekend tornadoes followed by a Monday or Tuesday Frost. Most recently we had a round of severe weather Sunday May 31, 2009, with many reports of wind and hail damage, and as Matt posted Tuesday, two tornadoes in Maine. At the beach in Massachusetts, we saw tremendous rainbows, I saw this one at 7 PM over Massachusetts Bay.

Can you say why it appears the Rainbow goes below the horizon? Please leave a comment.
An anomalous cold upper level low pressure, along with a surface front raced by turning our beautiful Sunday Morning into a cold windy afternoon. On the summit of Mount Washington New Hampshire, the wind increased to hurricane force as rain changed to snow.
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Flaky April Showers near Fenway Park

Posted by Tim Kelley April 8, 2009 at 1:40 pm

April showers have sprouted in New England today, Wednesday April 8, 2009. Wintry cold air in the sky (14° on Mt.Washington) has caused classic instability cumulus to grow into Black Bottomed Curtains of Snow and Rain in our New England sky. In some showers the Snow Level is pulled down to the ground in a burst of cold air rushing downward. But that very motion of sinking air also shuts off the very mechanism that caused the cloud in the first place.. the warm updraft.
Hazecam.net shows the April Snow Shower (rain at very lowest layer of atmosphere) over Boston & Fenway Park at 2 PM. The Radar to the right shows the movement of these showers, green is mostly rain, blue is mostly snow. You can make out the cyclonic flow over New England, the wind on Mt. Washington is only 7 mph! Near the center of the Upper Level Low. These showers will evaporate as the sun goes down.
By game time the Red Sox should see a big bright ‘Pink’ Moon breaking through the clouds. The air will dry out but will also stay cold with temperatures falling into the 30s. The wind from the southwest at 15 mph adds a bit more chill. As Jerry Remy pointed out last night, we usually do not see balls going out with cold air, but the is a cold wind from the southwest, over the Center Field Wall..

No Matter How Cold the Winter, There’s A Springtime Ahead..

Posted by Joe Joyce March 3, 2009 at 6:59 pm

The title up above comes from a Pearl Jam song called “Thumbing My Way”. It is great little acoustic number off the Riot Act album. It is a song I like to listen to at times during a long winter. That line in the song always gives me hope for better days to come when there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
I may not be feeling the “Hope and Change” from the Obama Administration lately…but I am feeling it with the weather! As they say with weather and climate, the only thing that is certain is Change! Read more

Cold side of front for most of New England

Posted by Tim Kelley February 13, 2009 at 8:42 pm

Blue Bird Valentines Day.
Groomers tilled surface back to granular and packed powder, there are a few scratchy areas, but great weather and skiing for President’s Day.
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All Time Record Cold Maine

Posted by Tim Kelley February 10, 2009 at 4:32 pm

Breaking News- NWS and USGS, along with Maine State Climatologist, Verify Data.

50 Below Zero at Big Black River Maine on Friday January 16, 2009 breaks the old record of 48 below zero in Van Buren, for the Coldest Temperature on Record for The State of Maine. This image of the USGS Remote Sensing Station at Big Black River, from the AP Story detailing the verification process and other All-Time Cold records from around the world. Here is the link to our original post from January 16, including temperatures from all around the state that day.

Up and Down Temps Amongst a Brief February Thaw

Posted by Joe Joyce February 7, 2009 at 9:53 am

A very mild start to Sunday with temperatures in the 30’s and 40’s by dawn! Thanks to cloud cover and a SW wind, temperatures remained steady overnight. Temperatures will be climbing into the Lwr 50’s in southern New England by noon ahead of another Artctic front which will be on the move Sunday. This will keep clouds around even a few scattered rain/snow showers across the far north. We warm ahead of the front, but look for temperatures to be falling into the 30’s by sunset…and then falling into the teens and 20’s as skies clear Sunday Night and the cold spreads south. This frontal passage will come with gusty winds out of the NW which will gust over 30 mph today. Read more

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