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Infrastructure Risk From Flooding – Naming Heat Waves – Implications of La Nina?
Another Cool, Free Lawn Watering Today If anyone asks (doubtful) nearly 8 inches of snow fell on the MSP metro area one year ago today. Nothing like easing into winter. In stark contrast summer’s overheated afterglow has pushed deep into October this year, treating...
Snow In The Rockies – October 19, 2021
National Weather Forecast A system moving east across the mid-section of the nation will bring rain and snow chances from the Rockies to the western Dakotas, with showers and storms stretching as far east as southern Minnesota by Tuesday Night. Rain and some higher...
Mild October Weather In The Central US – October 18, 2021
National Weather Forecast The main system on Monday will be out in the western United States, producing areas of rain and snow. A few showers will be possible with a trough of low pressure in the Northeast. We will be watching areas of rain through the first part of...
Models Predict Mild Bias Into January – Worst California Drought Since Late 1800s
November: Pond Hockey or Boating? Live long enough and you’ll see almost everything. Our lake has an unwritten, unspoken contest to see who can be the last family with a dock and boat still in the water. A chilling badge of honor, I guess. At the rate we’re going I...
1-3 Feet of Snow Black Hills – “Lumpy Hurricane Data” – Why Wet Bulb Temperatures Better Predict Heat Impacts
Reflecting On Another Supersized Summer The outlook calls for more cold fronts in the weeks to come. A temperature recession is as inevitable as gravity as longer nights brew up increasingly nippy airmasses to our north. That said, we just had another super-sized...
Insane Precipitation Extremes Across US Last 12 Months – Mild Bias To Linger Into Late October
The Profound Perils of Predicting Weather You can only learn so much out of a book. Exhibit A: predicting the weather. Meteorologists study calculus, physics and chemistry, but at the end of the day we learn by making mistakes. Lot’s of mistakes. It’s a painful (and...