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Snowiest Month of the Year Across USA – Record 22 Billion Dollar Disasters
Paul Douglas A Thaw, Then Accumulating Snow Late Week Minnesota sees its fair share of gasp-worthy weather, but don’t let anyone living in Miami, L.A. or Lincoln give you a hard time. According to FEMA’s National Risk Index, overall threats are greater across the...
Snowstorm Hits The Southern United States – National Weather Outlook For January 10th, 2021
National Weather Forecast On Sunday we'll be watching an area of low pressure bringing storms and snow to the southern United States. A cold front in the Pacific Northwest will bring rain showers and snow at higher elevation. Some lake effect snow will be possible in...
Subzero Air Brewing for Late January – NOAA Working on Safer Winter Travel Algorithms
Long ShadowsPaul Douglas Fog, A Thaw - Then Flirting With Zero ”Paul, why does the weather forecast keep changing?” The right question to be asking. Meteorologists refine forecasts over time, reacting to new data and the latest weather models. The closer you get to a...
Bitter Air Brewing for Late January – Early 2021 Hurricane Analysis
Paul Douglas Subzero Air Roughly Two Weeks Away Snowbirds are missing all the fun! While cold weather refugees in Arizona and Florida pick sand out from between their toes, Minnesotans are playing in powder, enjoying 20s and 30s and light winds, with nary a storm in...
A Splitting Polar Vortex Suggests (Much) Colder Third Week of January
Average annual global horizontal solar irradianceNREL (https://www.nrel.gov/gis/solar.html) Fairly Mellow Into Mid-January ”Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves” wrote Scottish novelist James M. Barrie. Although not as sunny...
2020 Weather Highlights – Billion Dollar Disasters Rise – Challenges of Autonomous Driving in Winter Weather
NOAA GFS Model valid 1 am January 17, 2021pivotalweather.com Subzero Blast Roughly Two Weeks Away? ”As the days lengthen, the cold doth strengthen” the old proverb goes. Yes it doth. Historically, we are about 2 weeks away from the midpoint of winter, when...