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.

Update on everything

1. The rain/snow line is in whindam, springfield, montreal as of 8 pm EDT. The snow will add up to an inch at the coast. 1-3 in the foot hills and mountans.

2. The ocean storm this weekend will hit and produce some snow saturday and saturday night.

Stay tuned

-Jack

Tropical update as of 5pm EDT 10.27.11

Rina is a tropical storm with 60 mph winds and is not  well organized at all with almost no southern side and not super high cloud tops.

97L is devoid of convection and is not organized at all.

-Jack

Todays weather 10.27.11

Today will feature rain in the morning changing to snow as the day goes on. This changeover to snow will happen first in the mountains then the coast will get the white stuff later in the day.

Tropical uppdate as of 5am EDT 10.27.11

As of 5 Rina is still a hurricane with 75 mph sustained winds. The system is very disorganized and only has a scap of an eyewall left. The storm is headed for the yucatan peninsula.

97L now does not even have a remote shot at developing. I agree.

-Jack

Sat map as of 6am EDT 10.27.11

  Still active with a disorganized Rina, a shortwave over the US, 97L in the central carribean, and a powerful N atlantic storm by greenland

A stormy day

Well here we go. We have rain, some heavy moving in. This will help the cold air to filter down from the higher levels of the atmosphere. After a day of rain we will get some snow overnight. There will be no accumulation. The storm will be gone by Friday.

Stay tuned

-Jack

Storm updates

As I look at the models again I see that the storm tomorrow will be a little bigger than origionally thought. Not by much but this one will at least have some small accumulations. By small I mean >1-1 inch at the coast with 1-3 in the foothills and 2-4 in the larger mountains.

It looks like the storm previosly predicted to hit this weekend will stay out to sea.

Stay tuned

-Jack

Tropical update as of 2 pm on wendsday 10.26.11

As of 2 Rinia is only a cat 1 with 85 mph winds. The storm is not very well organized with half an eyewall and a lopsided apperance.

97L is still a 10% chance of developing i would say 0%.

-Jack

Storm update

The weekend storm is going out to sea so it is not a concern. There is still a slight possability that either that storm or one on tuesday could affect us.

Stay tuned

-Jack

Sat. map 10.26.11 as of 7 am EDT

 This mornings sat. map. convection associated with a shortwave trof is building over the ohio valley. This is the snowy system. Rina is a swirl in the W. Caribbean and 97L is the convection south of PR.