This morning sees heat advisories and excessive heat warnings that spawn more than 1500 miles, stretching from interior Montana to the Gulf Coast. They come as a massive ridge expands […]
If 2020 was the year of hurricanes and wildfires, 2021 will likely go down as the year of extreme temperatures. A catastrophic mid-February polar intrusion crippled the Texas power grid […]
Synoptically, nothing screams summer quite like an oppressive, immobile mid-CONUS ridge. Known casually as the ‘death ridge’, the bulging zone of high pressure commonly traps heat over much of the […]
Quick blog today! Unseasonably widespread wildfires out West have been raging for days, destroying huge swaths of forest amidst extreme heat and anomalously low soil moisture. Most of these fires […]
A memorable, widespread episode of flash flooding appears set to occur today across portions of the northern Mid-Atlantic and southern New England as soils and streams left waterlogged by a […]
