The strong winter low pressure system that started in the western Gulf of Mexico earlier this week is now moving across the Florida Panhandle, while a surge of cold air moves across the Midwest. These two systems are spreading copious amounts of precipitation! North Miami Beach, Florida recorded 11.31 inches of rain yesterday, while 12+ [...]
Though the six month Atlantic Hurricane Season ended 17 days ago, hurricanes and cyclones have little respect for the calendar. Even as Cyclone Laurence (photo) finally begins to weaken over the northwest coast of Australia (note the lack of organization with the clusters of thunderstorms) today, winds yesterday were in the 125mph category. Not [...]
Discussion: Long-range data continues to advertise a major pattern change toward much colder and potentially stormy weather near or shortly before Christmas over a large part of the Lower 48. Operational computer models have been hinting at this for that past few days while other longer range signals we use here at ImpactWeather identified this [...]
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ACTIVE WINTER PATTERN FOR THE GULF COAST Much of the longer range weather data we are looking at indicates more surges of very cold air will be building south out of Canada over the next 10 days to two weeks. Not only will there be a threat of a hard freeze sometime over the [...]
Kudos to Fred Schmude, Chris Hebert and the ImpactWeather StormWatch Team for a great job forecasting the southeastern TX/southern LA winter weather event! Starting early this week (see posts below) they jumped on this storm (and what turned out to be the earliest snow in recorded weather history for the Houston area) and absolutely nailed [...]
Central and Southeast Texas Weekly Weather Outlook: Looks like we may be in for a few more surprise over the next week…First let me briefly talk about the upcoming snow burst. Yes, it is probably going to snow based on the consistent nature of both the ETA and GFS. I noticed the new data [...]
· Computer Model Guidance Here is the latest computer model data depicting the disturbance responsible for the snow threat this Friday. Note that the speed of this disturbance will be critical in determining snowfall totals. What type of affects will a faster moving disturbance have on any potential precipitation? Since a [...]
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The GFS, and to some extent the European and Canadian models, continues to advertise a rather significant winter weather event across southeast Texas this coming Friday. Though the 12Z GFS run has not completed, the 00Z run paints a bullseye of 4-6 inches of snow across southeast Texas, just to the northwest of Houston. Across [...]