All posts by Jack Sillin

I’m a third-year atmospheric science student at Cornell University who has been blogging about the weather since 2011. While I’m not officially a meteorologist, I have accumulated a bit of experience forecasting both local weather (in western Maine and New Hampshire) as well as national/international weather during my time writing for weather.us and weathermodels.com. I also have experience programming in Python, teaching concepts in weather forecasting, and communicating forecast information to general audiences.

Todays weather 12-28-11

Today will feature clearing skies with a break in the winds from around 7-8am. Then winds will resume except that they will be from the WNW brining in cooler air. Temperatures will top out near 50 at daybreak before a dramatic cool down this afternoon.

Stay tuned!

-Jack

Radar update as of 4:05 pm EST 12-27-11

As of 4:05, the northern edge of the precipitation is closing in on Boston MA-Springfield MA-Glens falls NY-Syracuse NY.

Wind forecasts have been lowered to 30 gusts 45. Still enough to cause scattered outages.

All other forecasts have not changed at this point.

Stay tuned!

-Jack

Radar 12:30am EST 12-27-11

As of 1230, the northern edge of the precipitation shield extends from NY, NY to Binghamton NY to Buffalo NY.

FORECAST

Wind…

Sustained @ 35 Gusting to around 50

Rain…

Will overspread the area after dark and continue to increase in intensity and areal coverage peaking around midnight.

Stay tuned!

-Jack

Stormy new year

Christmas is now came and gone but we all start the New years rush. Travelling and partying, staying up until  midnight and of course for us meteorologists the start to the notorious snowy months of January and Febuary. We are watching several storms in the coming week. The first will hit on wednesday with heavy rain and strong winds. Number 2 on the storm production line will hit Friday into New Years Eve with light snow.

Stay tuned!

-Jack

Merry Christmas!

I would like to thank everyone who veiws my blog and everyone who has subscribed to it. I would also love to wish everyone a very merry christmas and a happy new year. What to expect out the window christmas morning:

Cloudy with scattered flurries in the afternoon. Temperatures around freezing.

Merry Christmas!

-Jack

Update on next week storms

Skyline of Boston. Picture was taken from a wh...
Image via Wikipedia This is what you will see in boston On christmas morning as well as Monday, Wednesday and Thursday

As the start to the holiday weekend has arrived, likely everyone, or close to everyone has done most of their traveling by now. I know that no one wants to face the upcoming travel rush back home, but it will happen and here is a daily forecast for the busy travel days.

Any regions I have left unexplained have sunny weather.

Sunday: PM snow showers for the Northeast U.S. snow and rain for the Northwest U.S. Rain for the south.

Monday: Few snow showers across the interior Northeast. Rain for the mid atlantic. Showers for the Northwest.

Tuesday: Rain and snow for the Northeast. Rainy/snowy Northwest. Snowy upper rockies.

Wednesday: Snow for New England. Snowy High Plains. Windy Southern wyoming. Rainy/snowy Northwest.

Thursday: Snowy great lakes Stormy Northwest windy Southern Wyoming 

Stay tuned as we continue to fine tune the forecasts for this active weather pattern.

-Jack

Active next week

The week leading up to the new year will feature 2 main storm systems. One will hit wenesday and continue into thursday. The second is slated to hit Friday.

These systems are far out in the forecast and we will continue to monitor the latest forecasts

Stay tuned!

-Jack

Snow wrapping up on Friday active 7 day forecast

 FRIDAY  6:15 am

As I write this, the snow/rain line is bouncing around. It is frusterating to watch the rain.snow line retreating a few miles up the coast, and have it advancing on me. Snow/rain will wrap up around noon today with flurries and showers remaining this afternoon.

5 day forecast as of 6:15 am Friday

Tonight: Few snow showers with temps in the teens.

Saturday: Partly cloudy with highs in the 20s and lows around 10

Christmas: Mostly cloudy with highs in the upper 30s and lows in the lower 20s

Monday: Rain and snow showers with highs in the low to mid 30s and  lows in the mid 20s

Tuesday: Mix of sun and clouds with highs in the upper 30s and lows in the upper 20s

Wednesday: sun mixed with a few clouds with highs in the 30s and lows in the 20s

Enjoy the holidays!

Stay tuned!

-Jack

Quiet lead up to new years

As we look ahead into the 7 day forecast, it looks like a quiet week leading up to NewYears day. Exept, for Friday, when a storm system passes off to the south. This should bring 1-3″ of snow for much of the area. Saturday looks quiet and cool with temps topping out near 30. Also there is a possible storm for wendsday.

Stay tuned!

-Jack

Christmas forecast

Here is what to expect on christmas day…

FORECAST

Partly cloudy with light and variable winds

TEMPERATURES

High 36F Low 27F

 

Stay tuned!

-Jack