The region has experienced a couple of brief cold shots so far this winter but most people I’ve talked to feel it has been on the mild side. The past few days would support that idea. The chart below shows the daily highs for the past few days and the direction temperatures will be headed [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Temperature Trend At Year’s End
December 31, 2008
Holiday Greetings
December 24, 2008
The Firm Grip Of Winter
December 23, 2008
Christmas is a couple of days away and much of the nation is in the firm grip of winter. Frigid temperatures have locked in over the northern half of the U.S. and, if my memory serves me correctly, for the first time in a long time snow blankets the northern tier of states from coast [...]
Winter Storms On Parade
December 19, 2008
A split flow in the upper atmosphere is delivering a steady supply of winter storms to the United States. A storm that took the southern route and dumped record snow on Las Vegas, NV earlier this week is moving into the mid Atlantic and northeastern states today. This one will bring Maryland mostly rain, but [...]
Las Vegas Snowstorm Heads East
December 18, 2008
A record setting snow in Las Vegas, NV hit the headlines this morning and the storm isn’t done yet. Watches, warnings and advisories for heavy snow and ice have been posted ahead the storm from Kansas City to Chicago to Cleveland to Boston. The 3.6″ snowfall at the National Weather Service forecast office located two [...]
Winter’s Grip Expands
December 16, 2008
The official start of winter is still five days away (winter solstice at 7:04 a.m. EST on Dec. 21st), but bitter cold, ice and snow are making headlines for most of the United States this morning. From Maine to Louisiana and from Maryland to California, 37 states across the nation have winter storm watches or [...]
Winter Contrast
December 15, 2008
A look at the Monday mid day weather map shows quite a winter contrast.
A cold front runs from the Great Lakes to the lower Mississippi Valley. East of that front, mid day temperatures run in the 50s and 60s as far north at the Mid Atlantic region. Arctic air lies west of the front.
High temperatures [...]
Big, Bright Moon Tonight
December 12, 2008
The full moon tonight will be the biggest and brightest it has been in quite a while. The moon’s orbit around earth is not a perfect circle. The coincidence of lunar perigee(closest point) and a full moon is not very common. Tonight is one of those nights.
Enjoy the view.
John Collins
Lots Of Rain
December 12, 2008
The past couple of days have been quite wet. A sampling of rain totals around the area is shown below.
John Collins
November Weather … National Review
December 12, 2008
On December 1 Tom entered a blog reviewing the local November weather. NOAA has now released the national statistics for November 2008. The press release is below.
The November 2008 temperature for the contiguous United States was warmer than the long-term average, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The January-November 2008 temperature [...]
