However, a pattern change is shaping up to finally bring weather more reminiscent of January to a good swath of the East during the second half of January. This also added to the general sluggish, snowless season start in these areas. However, this system was expected to spread rain as far north as the Champlain Valley of Vermont and Upstate New York, places you might expect cold air to hold in place to allow more snow, sleet or freezing rain, rather than rain in January. There's nothing unusual at all with a January storm track that runs well inland from the Northeast seaboard, pumping above-freezing air into the I-95 corridor, keeping them mainly rain, as is the case, here. Note the relative dominance of rain, not snow, in much of the Northeast. Rain and snow outlook made on Janufor the period ending the morning of January 11, 2016. Hearing that in any other January, you might think it was time for city snow removal crews along the Northeast seaboard to gird for long hours clearing city streets choked with heavy, wind-driven snow, especially after the record-smashing winter 2014-2015.īut not on the weekend of Jan. Another Northeast Rain EventĪt the time of this writing, low pressure was expected to strengthen in the South, and head northeast. Through January 7, Buffalo (4.1 inches) and Cleveland (1.4 inches) had seen their least snowy start to a season on record.Ī record warm December had a lot to do with that. Neither Philadelphia, nor Washington, D.C., had seen even a trace of snow yet in the season through January 7, the latest on record either city has gone without seeing at least a few flurries in any season. Note the lack of snow on the ground in the Northeast, as far north as southern New England. coast and tracked into the central Atlantic. In early January 2016, a rather impressive low-pressure center formed off the southeast U.S. There are more cool, dry air intrusions from the cold continents and higher latitudes. Wind shear, the change in wind speed and/or direction that acts to rip apart either developing or mature tropical cyclones, is high in the winter. You also don't see many Atlantic named storms in that January track map above, either. Pali is only the third January tropical storm of record in central Pacific records dating to 1949. This was thanks to a burst of abnormal westerly low-level winds near or just south of the equator, coupled with the typical northeasterly trade winds of the subtropics north of the equator, providing a broad area of spin in which, once thunderstorms consolidated, a tropical storm formed.
JANUARY 2016 MENU CALENDAR FULL
( FULL DETAILS: Pali Swirls in the Central Pacific Ocean) Pali became the earliest Central Pacific tropical storm of record on January 7, well southwest of Hawaii. Tracks of all known January global tropical cyclones in the historical record. You don't see many January tracks north of the equator east of the international date line in the Pacific Ocean. In January, the lion's share of Earth's tropical cyclones are south of the equator, in the summer hemisphere, with the exception of the western North Pacific basin, where typhoons can occur year-round. If I had to rank this list, I'd number these first two items 1(a) and 1(b). ( MORE: El Niño Ties Strongest on Record) The past few dry, warm winters are the anomalies. Frankly, it should rain (and snow in the mountains) in winter there. Put simply, the strong El Niño is charging up the jet stream, but California typically has storms in the winter months. One item I have not included in our list is the recent California storm parade.
Party a result of a bizarre December 2015, we're seeing five weather events that we typically wouldn't see this time of year. ( MORE: Top 15 Stories of 2015 | Weirdest Weather of 2015) Your smartphone or wall calendar reads "January" - yet in some respects, it's as if the atmosphere hasn't gotten that memo so far.
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