Direct Weather First to Issue 2020-2021 Winter Forecast Direct Weather published the first major winter forecast for the 2020-2021 winter season on Monday, July 13. More forecasts are sure to come in the coming weeks and months, which can give us a pretty good idea of what this winter might look like. Generally speaking, the earlier in the year a forecast is made, the less accurate it will […] Share this:Tweet Weather Clay Malott | July 14, 2020 0 Comments
NOAA: June 2020 Landed in the Warmest and Driest Thirds of the U.S. Historical Record This article first appeared on the climate.gov website and was written by Rebecca Lindsey It’s been more than a decade since the contiguous United States has had a cooler-than-average June overall, and 2020 made no exception to the rule. According to the monthly climate summary issued Wednesday by the National Centers for Environmental Information, the average U.S. temperature for the […] Share this:Tweet Weather WeatherBrains | July 14, 2020 0 Comments
NOAA: What About Snow During La Niña Winters? This is a guest post by Dr. Stephen Baxter who is an NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC) meteorologist and does applied research on sub-seasonal-to-seasonal climate variability. In particular, he specializes in understanding how the middle-to-high latitude circulation is influenced by the tropics versus other processes. He also has a lot of opinions on Siberian snow cover and the role of […] Share this:Tweet Weather WeatherBrains | July 14, 2020 0 Comments
NOAA Posts 2020-2021 La Niña Watch | Snowfall Totals Expected to be Above Average in Pacific Northwest, Drier for Intermountain West The NOAA released a La Niña watch on Thursday, July 9. The NOAA is currently giving a 50-55% chance of a La Niña pattern developing in the fall and lasting through winter, though those numbers are certainly subject to change. La Niña systems generally indicate colder equatorial ocean temperatures, which forces the jet stream further north, delivering above-average precipitation to […] Share this:Tweet Weather Clay Malott | July 14, 2020 0 Comments
La Niña Generally Means a Colder and Snowier Winter than Normal On July 9th the Climate Prediction Center issued a La Niña watch. This means that conditions are favorable for the development of a La Niña or a negative phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation circulation over the next six months. The CPC indicates a 55% chance of development over the time period, this product is not a forecast that […] Share this:Tweet Weather WeatherBrains | July 14, 2020 0 Comments
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