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Snowfall Detected – Tomorrow Night

Snowfall Detected – Tomorrow Night Updated

🕔16:55, 20.Nov 2024

Discussion: First, let’s level some expectations. The snow potential for tomorrow (Thursday) into Friday is not a big deal. Given the time of year and surface temperature profile, it will be hard for significant accumulations to stack up outside of

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Discussing First Snowfall for Some

Discussing First Snowfall for Some

🕔14:23, 18.Nov 2024

Discussion: I’m not deducing much looking at upper-jet (250mb) winds. Slight deviations in either direction but no buckling. 500mb geopotential height anomalies paint a much better picture. I can see the existing ridge eroding by Wednesday to make way for

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Great Weekend. But Things are Changing.

Great Weekend. But Things are Changing.

🕔15:47, 15.Nov 2024

Discussion: This past Sunday, I began discussing a synoptic storm signal for premium Kaboom Club members. Now that it’s gaining traction, we can discuss it a little more in-detail. Let’s get the boring stuff out of the way first which

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Temps Continue to Roller Coaster

Temps Continue to Roller Coaster

🕔14:21, 8.Nov 2024

Discussion: The upper jet will dip and flatten out into more of a zonal flow this weekend. Geopotential heights, analyzed at 500mb, will correlate with this with a reduction in positive anomalies to near-average. Far from a deep cold trough

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Another Dry Temp Spike

Another Dry Temp Spike

🕔13:37, 4.Nov 2024

Discussion: This week’s weather will continue to fall victim to a persistent ridging pattern. The current ridge is starting to depart which will put NJ under a warmer SW flow for Tues-Wed. On Thursday, the current ridge will handoff to

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Back to Fall for a Minute

Back to Fall for a Minute

🕔13:40, 1.Nov 2024

Discussion: The drought continues to worsen. We’ve had no synoptic rain systems (tropical remnants, nor’easter, coastal low, etc.) and almost every frontal passage (warm or cold) has been mostly dry through NJ. The cold front moving through today (Friday) started

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Warm for Halloween

Warm for Halloween

🕔13:36, 28.Oct 2024

Discussion: The rainfall situation remains dire. The front-side of high pressure gave many locations their first freeze overnight (Sunday night into Monday morning). NJ conditions will now moderate to above-average temperatures as the high sits overhead today (Monday) and moves

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Beautiful Days Crisp Nights

Beautiful Days Crisp Nights

🕔00:39, 22.Oct 2024

Discussion: An anomalous ridge over the NorthEast/Mid-Atlantic US is to blame for the current warm weather. Yes, it’s nice but out of place IMO. The more important story is the lack of rainfall pushing parts of NJ into a moderate/severe

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Warm and Dry. Go Figure.

Warm and Dry. Go Figure.

🕔01:08, 18.Oct 2024

Discussion: The trough has moved out and now the E US will be under the influence of a ridge this weekend into mid next week. This means above-average temperatures and continued dry conditions. The drought monitors are really starting to

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Fall Blows Back In

Fall Blows Back In

🕔22:56, 13.Oct 2024

Discussion: After our warmer weekend, we’re in for a transitional week. Those who saw 80s on Sunday afternoon could very well see 30s later this week overnight.  A large positive-tilted trough is establishing across the E US as a ridge

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