By Chris Martz and Chase Koller | November 16, 2019 As clocks are turned back and temperatures are plunging, the change from fall to winter is upon us. After last year was our fourth consecutive winter with above average temperatures and precipitation in the Mid-Atlantic, our team will break down what to expect this winter below! Click the Download button
Read moreLast weekend, I wrote a long and detailed article explaining why man-made climate change is not causing more frequent cold air outbreaks in the mid-latitudes. I have received a lot of backlash from meteorologists and weather enthusiasts today because of some comments I made on Twitter yesterday evening and this morning that disputed scientifically incorrect claims made by the United
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By Chris Martz | November 9, 2019 INTRODUCTION Just when wildfires weren’t enough, we now have people blaming cold weather on a warming climate, which seems quite contradictory. In light of the Arctic outbreak in forecast this coming week, people like Phil Plait (who has since blocked me) took to Twitter (Figure 1) to claim that man-made climate change is
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By Chris Martz | November 4, 2019 One of the first things I do while weather forecasting is study the 500 millibar height anomaly maps over the Northern Hemisphere, North America, or both. The average air pressure at sea level is 1,000 millibars and decreases by half to 500 millibars around 18,000 feet in the atmosphere. 18,000 feet is the
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Well, it’s that time of the year again, wildfire season, and like clockwork, people are losing their marbles about the wildfires in California. Articles, like the one from Politico below (Figure 1)¹, have been popping up left and right claiming that climate change is causing the wildfires. Endless amounts of disinformation is being spread around on Twitter and Facebook from
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By Chris Martz | October 22, 2019 Back in August, I released my autumn outlook. I predicted below average temperatures stretching from Big Sky Country all the way east to the Ohio Valley and above average temperatures across much of the Desert Southwest. I also forecasted dry conditions to ensue over the West Coast, Desert Southwest, Deep South, and Southeast,
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By Chris Martz | October 20, 2019 After an exceptionally warm September for much of the United States, October has been quite the turnaround. While the overall pattern is similar to that of September, the southeast ridge has shifted considerably eastward, allowing the corresponding trough to manifest over the western and central United States and Canada. Our current 500 millibar
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