NE.Wx Snowfall Forecast Contests

Another week of obsessive / compulsive anticyclogenesis from the ern PAC.

(Updated below) The SOI is a 30-day moving average and with one day to go before the end of the month the index comes in near -4.9. After f...

There/s plenty not to like in the LR progs...not the least of which is the rabid PAC jet flooding the lower 48 with unseasonably mild temper...

Does Thursday/s 5H NHEMI T chart -- with its depiction of three distinct waves --suggest a looming pattern change via retrogression. Back up...

Most likely not. All guidance strongly suggests this is a synoptic-scale rain storm with the potential for mesoscale snowfall along the comm...

An animation illustrating how the forecast atmosphere is influenced by initial conditions. All panels have a VT @ 12z on 12/26. Click to ani...

This week/s Nino 3.4 region SSTA comes in @ 1.3°C....down 7% from last week. Is this the beginning of the end? Did it ever get started? Abou...

In some circles...the stratosphere was long known as the 'ignorosphere' in large part b/c all sensible wx was observed in the tropos...

You know it/s bad. Maybe so bad you/re afraid to look. NEWxSFC has 27 stations in play when snowstorms threaten the forecast area . Snowfall...

The restlessness is palatable and it has the unmistakabe taste of anchovies. Will this year end up being another Steinbeck winter of discont...