High-pressure can kiss my…

Most of the US, particularly those areas below the 45N latitude, have been pretty dry over the last week. The weather has been great but there hasn’t been a lot of snow.

The bad news is that except for a few areas we aren’t going to see a lot of snow this week either.

High-pressure has got most of the mid-latitudes on freaking lock-down right now and it is really cramping any new pow production. Check out the NOAA map (I swear I will get some more maps once the weather starts to kick back up again)…



As you can see from my super-technical observations on the map itself…the current set up sort of blows. You can see multiple high-pressure ridges (indicated by the blue “H”s)…those are actually little peaks of a very large ridge that is stretching from the West Coast all the way across the Midwest states.

In fact, because of this big-ass High, we are only seeing a few pockets of weather let alone snow. The most dynamic areas of weather are occurring around the edges of the high…and any new snow is occurring right around the Canadian/US border, with one little area around the Pacific NW and another around (you guessed it) the Great Lakes.

At this point it looks like just some minimal snowfall occurring through the Pacific NW (probably below 2” in most areas.) The Great Lakes areas will see some areas pull in nearly a half foot+ of new snow over the next couple of days before that storm front slips back into Canada.

Long-range is not looking great for the areas under the high-pressure…we are going to see mostly dry, and sometimes windy, conditions for the next several days. It does, however, look like we get some new low-pressure/storm-fronts starting to push over the West Coast later in the week. Unfortunately one of these lows is going to be a “warm-wet” low that isn’t great for snow-making…so a lot of the West Coast isn’t going to see a ton of snow from this one. It does start to mix with colder air from Canada a little later in the weekend as it pushes east…so we could potentially see some more snow for the Rockies and eventually the NE as those storms move further across the country.