Largely this means warmer and wetter over the CONUS but cold and snowy over southern Canada.
Forecast for the next 2 weeks
Month: February 2024
My First Guess Spring Forecast for 2024
January was more winter like than was December. Here are the anomaly maps for January 2024.
A Quick Moving Snow Storm Brought 3″ to 10″ of snow to Most Of Michigan Thursday
The first 9 days of February this year, were the Warmest on Record of Southwest Lower Michigan
What makes this more striking is that over the past 30 years, the last week of January and the first two weeks of February are the coldest weeks of the entire year. The mean of 37.2 degrees in Grand Rapids would be normal for the 20th of March (using the 1991-2020 normal).
Unusually Warm into Friday, then over the next week, the colder air returns over most of the CONUS.
This past 15 days ( Jan. 23- Feb. 7) in Grand Rapids, Michigan were the warmest on record (34.8F) that exceeded the 34.7F for the 15 days ending on January 6th 2012.
It will be unusually warm till next weekend. Then the cold and snow return. This time the cold will not move out as quickly as it did in January.
The bottom line is it will be very warm, relative to normal until around Valentine’s Day, the it will get cold across most of the central and eastern CONUS with a significant amount of snow over the Great Lakes and New England.
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