The trough overhead, that can tend to cause wind suppressing complications, is currently in play this morning and I have drawn it’s likely position on top of our current wind observations. Notice that sites N of Kite Island are tending to be westerly and those to the S of Kite Island are tending to be…
Doing today’s forecast, we favored Sandy Hook due to clearing over NYC and the potential for a sea breeze draw. I just had to capture this image though because there is a sensor on the USCG station at the end of Sandy Hook and several other government and “other” sensors in the area but none…
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…
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…
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