Good morning everyone! As promised, I have another weather update regarding our big storm system which will be producing a blizzard over the Dakotas and Upper Midwest today and some decent interior mountain snow tomorrow through Tuesday across Southern New… Read More ›
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Thanksgiving Travel Forecast
By Chris Martz | November 23, 2019 Good evening everyone! Thanksgiving is less than a week away, so I decided that I wanted to give my viewers a heads up on what’s going on across the country this week as… Read More ›
A Sad Day Today…
While this blog’s purpose is to provide accurate forecasts for major U.S. weather events, weather education, and climate op-eds, today’s post is quite a bit different and personal. What happened? As you all have known, my black lab/pit bull (?)… Read More ›
No, Global Warming is Not Causing More Frequent Arctic Outbreaks
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… Read More ›
Snowfall on Tap For the Mid-Atlantic & New England This Weekend.
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… Read More ›
Mother Nature, Not Global Warming, is Causing the Wildfires in California
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)ยน, have been popping up left and right claiming… Read More ›
November 2019 Forecast
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… Read More ›
Another Cold Air Outbreak This Week
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… Read More ›
WEATHER GEEKS LESSON: What is Radiation Fog?
Follow Chris on social media! By Chris Martz | October 14, 2019 One of my favorite things to do is view live webcams of mountain slopes, valleys, beaches, and cities in hopes of catching a cool sunrise, sunset, cool clouds,… Read More ›
Hurricane Dorian: Just Weather, Not Climate Change
Weโve made it three weeks without extreme weather and/or climate change hysteria making rounds on social media. Unfortunately, that streak has come to an end, making the lives of most weather forecasters like me a lot more difficult. We are… Read More ›
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