Monday, February 25, 2013
March's weather will not start on a lionish note in all likelihood but it appears a cold cat is probably more likely for an analogy as the calendar page changes.
As the calendar eases out of winter and toward spring, Mother Nature is making the transition more slowly than usual. A year ago at this time, we were in the midst of a stretch of three days out of six of 60 degree or warmer days. But outside of Wednesday's flirtation with the upper 50s, no such luck is in sight for the next two weeks, as the atmospheric pattern after a storm system moves through in the middle of this week is a morass of stale late winter and delayed spring. If you like warmth at this time of the year, feel free to wait a couple of weeks, as the middle of March should bring a fling of warmth our way. How long that fling lasts is still very much to be determined, but it doesn't look like the whole of March will feature the …
Monday, February 11, 2013
After a near miss on snow this past Friday night, Monday rains will wash away what little is left on the ground, leaving a typical temperature pattern for the rest of the week.
Friday's near miss storm was literally that—we were about 50 miles away from getting several additional inches of snow in your backyard. Many areas of northern New Jersey and coastal areas of central New Jersey ended up getting 10 or more inches of snow. Locally, anywhere from trace amounts to six inches fell from Chester County to Bucks, with Philly getting anywhere from a few tenths of an inch at the naval yards to nearly five inches in the Northeast. Most of the remaining snow will wash away as Monday's rains move through. The rain will be steady, if not heavy, for a time. We'll probably get a half to a full inch of rain in the region, with most of it falling in the morning. Some drizzle will linger into the afternoon. The balance of …
Monday, February 4, 2013
Last week's weather yo-yo gets replaced by an active pattern with a pair of clippers and perhaps a larger storm on Friday.
Believe it or not, we've had accumulating snow on four occasions around the region over the past week. Those accumulating snows have generally amounted to very little—an inch here, a few tenths there, and in Philadelphia they've picked up a whopping one inch from four separate snowfalls over the past seven days. This week brings more of the same to start—a couple of weak systems on Monday night and again on Wednesday morning that could bring an inch or two of snow to parts of the region. These fast-moving, moisture-short clippers don't drop much snow usually, although with enough dynamics some spots can get a fair amount of snow (such as Cape May this past Friday). These two systems won't be as dynamic as that system but snow showers, or …
Monday, January 28, 2013
From winter to soaking rain to winter in a few days' time. A wild ride of weather ahead this week!
This week's weather will have us on a bit of a roller coaster. The recent spell of cold will ease out for a couple of days before a second round of cold air pushes in, after a soaking rain on Wednesday afternoon and evening. We go from winter to soaker to winter within the course of a week. At least you can't argue that the weather pattern ahead is boring! Monday's precipitation plethora is due to warm air pushing in aloft over the cold air in place at the surface. Temperatures will be slower to warm above freezing the farther north and west you are from the city, with the result being some periods of freezing rain or freezing drizzle that could lead to slippery travel for a time during the morning and early afternoon before temperatures …
