Monday, June 15, 2015

Hurricane Carlos will mostly stay offshore. It's skimming the west coast of Mexico, but cold water is causing it to die.

In the Gulf of Mexico, we are watching Invest #91-L and whether it will become a named storm. If named, it will be Bill as Ana affected the East Coast of the U.S., May 8-12 with strong winds of 58 mph on May 9, before the official start of hurricane season.

A high pressure over South Carolina and Georgia is pushing Invest #91-L westward.

Monday, March 23

There will be scattered showers in the Southeast this morning.  Snow will accumulate in Illinois and Iowa this morning.  Cold weather persists in New England region.  There will be snow and rain in the Northwest.

Tuesday, February 17

A winter storm lurks in the Midwest. Many areas in South Carolina will see ice and snow this morning, including Florence, Horry, Marion, and Dillon counties near the coast. Additionally areas in upstate South Carolina will get snow and ice including Chester, York, Cherokee, Spartanburg, Greenville, Pickens, Oconee, Anderson, and Union. North Carolina will also get snow and parts of central and south North Carolina will get ice. Eastern Tennessee has an ice storm warning. Virginia and Kentucky will get snow.

Another batch of arctic air is coming. Wednesday it will cover North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota. Thursday  it will expand to Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Arkansas.  Friday much of the U.S. will be cold as it expands to the Northeast region. Mild to normal temperatures will remain on the west coast region.

Wednesday, January 28

A high pressure is bringing cold weather to the Southeast. Eastern Maine continues to receive snowfall from the Nor'easter. This low pressure has weakened. 

Over 24 inches of snowfall was recorded in Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts. Central Connecticut, central Massachusetts, and southeast Maine received 12-24 inches of snow. 6-12 inches of snow was recorded in west Connecticut, west Massachusetts, and central Maine. 3-6 inches of snow was recorded in north New Jersey, east New York, central Vermont, and north Maine. 1-3 inches of snow as reported int he rest of New York, north Vermont, and north Maine. 

An Alberta Clipper will hit Michigan with snow tonight, bringing mixed precipitation to Indiana and Illinois. The storm will move Eastward, hitting northwest New York, northwest Pennsylvania and north Ohio with snow tomorrow; central Ohio will get mixed precipitation. Thursday night it will bring snow to Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. 

Wednesday, January 15

Rain and scattered showers continue in South Carolina caused by moisture from the Gulf.  This also causes freezing rain in North Carolina and Virginia when mixed with cold air from Canada.

Interested in learning about past hurricanes?  Check out this site: http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/hurrarchive.asp?MR=1
It contains data back to 1851.  Hurricanes were "named" starting in 1954.

Weather for Tuesday, January 13

Moisture from the Gulf causes rain in the Southeast.  Cold air from Canada will cause the moisture to tun to freeing rain in North Carolina and Virginia.

Wednesday, January 7

Lake effect snow continues over that region. Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey are also affected by the winter storm.

A cold front covers much of the US. Winds chills of -54 were reported in Minnesota. Tonight in South Carolina temperatures will drop to the teens. Friday, moisture from the Gulf Coast and this arctic blast will cause rain and ice in Texas. The rain and ice will continue on Saturday. This will cause rain in Texas and ice in Arkansas on Sunday.

The storm moves east bringing rain to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia on Monday; ice in Kentucky, West Virginia, Washington D.C., Maryland, Delaware and Ohio; snow in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.