Just caught a good example in the VA area of conditions that reflect two of my staple bullet points in synoptic setups such as the one we are seeing today. (*Heads up for fluky conditions / shifty directions as each synoptic feature changes position / gains and or loses influence) and (*Showers and or thunderstorms…
So you may be thinking to yourself… There’s a cold front approaching our area from the W, so I just might get a session in today. Well, in an ideal approaching cold front setup with a strong well positioned center of low pressure associated with the boundary and a strong high pressure out in the…
Model to model consistency is often something we use to measure confidence in a specific feature. Sometimes it works… and sometimes it doesn’t… like today. In today’s forecast I should have stuck with my original hunches from last night with a late day SW surge for the North Coast of MA, however this…
This snapshot of wind observations combined with a radar image of storms moving through NJ from W to E is a good example of a gust front / outflow boundary increasing our wind speeds out ahead of approaching storms. A gust front / outflow boundary is simply a storm scale mass of cold / cool…
What a tough call today for the MA North coast. We had a prevailing WNW flow much of the day and no model really showed consistency on the amount of flow aloft. Our questions in these kinds of days are along the lines of how deep will the mixing occur to keep the NW…
The recent synoptic setup lately provides us with a good example of a blocking high entrenched out in the Atlantic. A blocking high is simply an area of high pressure that is relatively stationary for an extended period of time. The series of surface maps below show the blocking high staying put through Saturday morning as it…
Prepared by Meteorologist: Matt Corey These Spring days in New England often see healthy areas of Low pressure the sweep off to the north into Nova Scotia. Computer models have improved over the years but still struggle to handle the post storm winds because rarely does a straight West wind prevail. More common is…
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