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February 25, 2008

The late-winter weather rollercoaster continues on its up and down journey this week. After a cool weekend today will be the most pleasant day of the week. A weak high pressure system sliding out to sea will keep the skies mostly sunny. Highs today will be in the mid-40s. The temperature won't change much tomorrow, but the city is in for a wet day. A storm currently over Oklahoma is expected to move up through......

Continue Reading "Sunny Monday, Rainy Tuesday"

November 28, 2007

Can you believe that it warmed up to 64 degrees yesterday? You may have missed it as the normal diurnal temperature pattern, you know, coldest in the morning, warmest in the afternoon was upset by a late-night cold front. The high happened at 1:52 a.m. and the low of 43 didn't occur until midnight. Cold air continues to pour into the region behind the front. While it will be a sunny day, this afternoon is......

Continue Reading "Another Step Toward Winter"

November 26, 2007

The ragged march to winter weather continues. Unlike last month, which was mostly warm for days on end, November keeps bouncing between cold and warm episodes as the atmosphere struggles with the transition to a wintertime circulation pattern. Today will be warmer than normal as the morning rain tapers off to a drizzly fog. The rain's not going away! The tree lighting at Lincoln Center looks to be a soggy occasion. A low pressure......

Continue Reading "November Rain Again"

February 5, 2007

Holy icicle breath, where's Batman when you need him? Mr. Freeze has taken over the city and he's going to keep us in his grip for at least a week. Although today and tomorrow will bear the brunt of the cold, there won't be much warming until next Monday at the earliest. The freeze covers much of the northern half of the country, from New England down to the Ohio Valley and back up to......

Continue Reading "Feeling Minnesota"

November 13, 2006

Ooh, here's some obscure weather trivia. The big rain we had last week pushed Central Park's total for the year to over 50 inches. That makes 2006 the fourth consecutive year in which precipitation exceeded 50 inches --the first time that's happened since records began in 1869. The rain parade continues this week as a storm, that looks like a tropical storm but isn't a tropical storm, moves up along the coast today and a......

Continue Reading "Wet is Normal"

September 13, 2006

If you were to look at this morning's radar map you might think a lot of rain is imminent. You'd be twenty percent right. Radar works by sending out a weak microwave signal. When the radar beam hits a rain drop the signal returns to the radar station. The longer it takes the signal to make that trip the further away the rain is. Pretty simple, eh? Here's the catch and why this radar image......

Continue Reading "The Deceptive Radar"

March 8, 2006

Meh. We're about to enter a stretch of meh weather. An upper-level disturbance tonight and a warm front that will stall out as a stationary front over the weekend will usher in several days of warmer, yet off-and-on drizzlyrainyfoggycloudy weather. Warm fronts are typically weak. The storm driving this one is far away in the Ohio Valley. That adds up to a front that can't do much of anything. Until a bigger storm comes along......

Continue Reading "Spring Appears?"

July 8, 2005

Fear not fellow Gothamist, the rain's running out of time. The tropical interloper known as Cindy is quickly moving through town. As the Channel 7 radar attests, it's not too long before she's gone. While she's here a flood watch is in effect. Your favorite outdoor events may still be on for tonight! Cindy is the third named tropical storm this season. Hurricane Dennis is over Cuba right now and will soon be heading into......

Continue Reading "Ray Ray Rain"

February 9, 2005

A Nor'easter is going to form this evening as a storm currently over the Ohio Valley moves out to sea. The Hub of the Universe may get a lot of thick falling snow but our backwater of a burgh will be too far away from the center of the storm to see much action. We may get an inch or two of snow tomorrow, but expect rain tonight. The rain and snow won't last long......

Continue Reading "Too Far from the Center"

January 5, 2005

What can Gothamist say about the upcoming weather other than it sucks eggs? Frankly, we have no idea what "sucks eggs" means or where that phrase comes from, but it doesn't sound good and neither does our weather. Look for rain to mix with sleet and snow as the day progresses. If it is still raining after the ground freezes look out for freezing rain in the mix. Eventually all the rain will turn to......

Continue Reading "Ugly, Ugly, Ugly"

August 10, 2004

A cold front well to our west along the Ohio Valley (Gothamist doesn't know why but meteorologists love to mention cold fronts as being "along the Ohio Valley") is slowly creeping toward us. A cold front ain't nuthin' but a boundary with a warm, moist air mass ahead of it, and cold, dry air behind it. Cold, dry air, being denser, easily pushes warm, moist air out of its way. When pushed, warm air......

Continue Reading "Slowly slowly slowly wetter wetter weather"

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