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Dreary Tuesday A weak and mainly dry storm system is dropping southward out of central Canada and through the Dakotas today. The position of this system at 500mb both this morning and tonight can be seen below. The weak trough brought a decent cold front into the Metro area last night, so highs will only push into the upper 30's to …

Another gorgeous day today. Yesterday we topped out in the upper 40's in most locations. This afternoon, we see no reason to doubt that lower 50's should be the norm, thanks to broad sunshine once again and high pressure in place. The high (below) is located in the Dakotas. It will be moving south just a tad as we go …

Not much happening over the area this weekend. Ridge is partly in place and there will be lots of sunshine with the ridge keeping any storms well out of our area. The jet stream is just to our northeast over the central and northern Plains. The proximity of the jet has led to a weak frontal boundary, or maybe even …

What a change today from 48 hours ago! Wednesday, we were all covered in snow with blizzard conditions and terrible visibilities. Today, we will bask in full sunshine. The 500 mb height anomaly pattern is shown below. A high pressure ridge is building across the Pacific Northwest. The location of this will largely keep things quiet for the foreseeable future, …

BOOM! What an incredible storm yesterday! After a few hours of moderate rainfall in the morning, temperatures dropped on schedule with a change-over to snow occurring in most locations between 9 and 11AM. The radar animation from mid-day yesterday speaks for itself! For those wondering, this was indeed a "bomb cyclone". The central pressure dropped more than 24 mb in …

The beginning stages of our major winter storm are underway! The powerful surface low has formed and will tighten up through the rest of the morning into afternoon with winds beginning to really ramp up. Observations show the central pressure is around 975mb at this time with the center of the storm rather broad, but located somewhere east of Colorado …