I have always found, the best way to predict the future is to look at the past! And that is very true with the weather. Well believe it or not, winter in coming to the Southeast. I know a lot of you thought it would never get here. This winter in the Southeast has been [...]
Written By: Matthew Holliday Let me start off by wishing everyone a Happy New Year! I’m quite excited about Firsthand Weather’s future, and I really feel that 2013 will be the best year yet!! Now, some of you have been anticipating our “final thoughts” for the rest of this winter, and I’m doing things a [...]
Very Strong Damaging Winds Discussion: Whew!!! Talk about some very strong damaging winds a good portion of the Rockies, The Northern Plains and some of the central plains have been experiencing some very strong winds. Even Oklahoma and Kansas has been seeing windy conditions from the south and will be from the north from 20 [...]
Sometimes a picture can say a 1000 words. I just want to quickly give you a visual comparison of the 1954 summer with the 2011 summer. While I’ve had emails and comments sent to me throughout 2011 telling me that this hot summer was living proof of man-made global warming, here’s an example of when [...]
Damaging Winds Discussion: At Firsthand Weather we have been talking about the arctic plunge that will drive cold air pretty far south across the US, particularly the eastern US. As a prelude to this arctic air pushing southward, very strong to damaging winds will occur in areas of the Rockies and in the northern plains [...]
Cold Air Discussion: At Firsthand Weather we have been talking about the likelihood that cold air will plunge southward out of Canada, shortly after the New Year sets in. CEO Matthew Holliday has been talking about how the European Model has been locking into cold air and a deep trough setting up a plunging far [...]
I just want to quickly show you how aggressive the latest runs of the European model is being with the trough digging in the South. You can see this on the latest 12z European model at 120 hours which would be on January 3, 2012. We get a good lake effect snow event going with [...]
Get ready! The big Arctic outbreak is on the way, and it is coming in with a bang. The European model has been the forecast model to look at with this big pattern change, but a lot of the meteorologists were not wanting to go all out on this event taking place. It is good [...]
Well, I hate to come out and ruin everything for everybody that was hoping for all snow, but this system is definitely not going to be the system that the ECMWF was suggesting it would be earlier on. However, some areas are going to get accumulating snow on the back end of this system, and [...]
Happy New Year! I’m so excited about what is going to happen in 2011 here at Firsthand Weather, and things are going to get off to a busy start. I’m going to go into a broad overview of what to expect over the next several weeks, and I will fine tune every weather event as [...]
Wow! It’s going to get brutally cold! If you think it is cold right now in the eastern half of the country, just wait til we get a few days down the road. I’m going to explain why I think that most of the month of December (at least til Christmas) is going to be [...]
Back in October 2, 2010, I released my final winter outlook for the entire United States. You’ll notice that in my winter outlook description that I said mild and dry in the South and Southeast, and I said cold and snowy up North. I am confident that this will happen and prove itself to be [...]