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Discussion: By the end of this weekend/start of next week, the upper jet is going to kink into more of a meridional look, with ridging in the W US and a trough dipping over the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast US. This pattern should dominate the first half of next week before relaxing back to a zonal look for the second half of the week. This suggests a closed-off...

Discussion: Between now and around 8pm this evening, a disturbance will push through NJ from W to E in the form of a weak low and stormfront. Some initial action is pushing into SWNJ now (3pm) ahead of the main batch. However, the main event should occur between about 5-9pm, maybe 6-9pm.

This evening’s system is targeting all of NJ with at least som...

Discussion: For this week, we’re going to be under steady SW or W/SW flow aloft due to the jet stream orientation coming from a hot ridge upstream. Climatologically, we are losing the ability to push temperatures into the excessive/dangerous criteria. However, we can still have swampy tropical air masses with this sort of flow which will make 80-85 degrees fe...

Discussion: We’ve lost about 75 minutes of daylight since the summer solstice. By now many of you should be noticing later sunrises and earlier sunsets. As your captain of Kaboom Airlines, it is my duty to inform you that we’ve begun our initial descent towards the colder months. Please keep your snow lover hopes and dreams in the upright position and keep yo...

Discussion: The general upper level flow pattern should remain in place this week. A ridge currently over the SW US will slowly advance E towards the SE US by this weekend. At the same time, a trough in SE Canada will squeeze the upper-jet flow from a zonal flow this week toward more of a meridional flow by this weekend as the ridge bumps the C US jet northwa...