Jan 24 AM	PM

This web page was created to show an unusual effect in weather patterns that can occur from time to time, especially during winter months. The pictures shown here are satellite images down loaded from the Internet each day for almost a week, once in the morning around 0800 hrs and again around 2200 hrs each night. The weather maps show the location of present storms and the high and low pressures associated with them. The different colors indicate the form of precipitation that is taking place along fronts. Green for rain, orange for freezing rain and sleet, and gray and bright white for snow intensities; along with yellow for locations with heavy fog. On the first two images for 24 January 2000 there is a large storm system in the southeast which is about to slip up the east coast and turn into a northeaster for New England. At the same time a storm system is developing out on the west coast which will play a major part in future storms patterns, so keep an eye on it.

Jan 25 AM	PM

On the 2nd day, the 25th of January 2000 you can see that the northeast is in the grips of a good old northeaster which dumped from 6 to 24 inches throughout New England and New York, and as much as 27 inches in Virginia while on its way up the coast. At the same time you notice that the storm out on the west coast is forming a low pressure system down around New Mexico and is heading east. Also a large bubble of high pressure is coming down out of Canada over the Great Lakes and this will provide the central point for future weather patterns.

Jan 26 AM	PM

On the 26th as the low pressure in the northeast departs for the north Atlantic and the high pressure in the great lakes starts pushing eastward which starts driving temperatures along the east coast downward. At the same time the storm going through New Mexico is spreading snow ahead of it into Oklahoma and the panhandle of Texas.

Jan 27 AM	PM

By the 27th the south is in the grips of a good storm throughout Texas and on into Louisiana and Mississippi, with snow spreading northward up into Kansas and Arkansas. At the same time the northeast is freezing up with temperatures well below zero and wind chill factors down into the 50 and 60 below zero mark as the high pressure over the Great Lakes slips eastward.

Jan 28 AM	PM

As the storm in the south continues eastward on into Alabama and Georgia creating havoc once more down there with freezing rain and snow in the mountains. The Northeast is now enjoying some sunny weather but not for long as the stage is being set for another repeat of a northeaster.

Jan 29 AM	PM

Here it comes. The low pressure forming up in Kentucky and Tennessee drives freezing rain throughout the Carolinas and snow northward. The Virginias and Delaware are in for another slacking as the system once again heads up the east coast, with the center aiming for Pennsylvania and southern New York, driving the pleasant high pressure system in New England up into Main and the Canadian Maritimes.

Jan 30 AM	PM

Well here we are again a week later buried in another northeaster with another one to two feet of snow spread across New England and a high pressure system entrenched in the central part of the country. Had you noticed that the storm that formed out west a week ago and swept across the south before it came up the east coast seemed to be following the outer edge of the counter clockwise rotation of a high pressure system. And guess what, look what’s brewing up out on the west coast again.

February 13 & 14

Again in February the same pattern was set up with storms starting out in the west coast and developing across the mid west, this time not quite going all the way to the deep south but sneaking across Kentucky-Tennessee and coming up through Pennsylvania to dump a foot of snow on poor New England and New York.

February 16 & 18

Again on February 16 and 18 another storm originating out west comes charging across the country this time staying more northerly and slips right up the Ohio Valley and got-cha, another foot of the white stuff on New England. In some spots in the northeast corner of New England and up in the mountains of Vermont the snow piled up 50 to 60 inches in February 2000, and this is nothing compared to the good old days when it used to really snow up here. This reminds me of the plight that a couple of flat landers found themselves in when they moved to beautiful Vermont.

DEAR DIARY...

Sept 12: Moved to Vermont our new home! It is so beautiful here! I love it!

Nov 24: It snowed last night! Woke up to find everything blanketed with white. It looks just like a post card. We went outside and cleaned the snow off the steps and shovelled the driveway. We had a little snow ball fight ( I WON! ) and then when the snow-plow came by, we had to shovel the driveway again. What a beautiful day. I love it in Vermont!

Dec 2: Well, all the snow has melted. I hope we get some more.

Dec 12: More snow last night! I love it! The snow-plow did it's trick again at the driveway.

Dec 19: More snow. Couldn't get out of the driveway to go to work. Am exhausted from shovelling snow. @$#% snow-plow!

Dec 22: More of that #@$#!% white stuff fell last night. I've got blisters on my hands from shovelling. I think the snow-plow hides around the corner and waits until I've done the driveway!

Dec 25: Merry Christmas! More @$#%& snow. If I ever get my hands on that @$#%& who drives that snow-plow I swear I'll kill him!!!

Dec 27: More #@$#%& white stuff last night! Been inside for 3 days! Can't go anywhere, cars stuck in a mountain of #@$%& snow! The weatherman says to expect another 10 inches of the #@$%& stuff again tonight! Do they know how many shovels full of snow 10 inches is?

Dec 28: The weatherman was wrong. We got 14 inches of the #@$%& white stuff. At this rate it won't melt till August!!! The snow-plow got stuck just up the street. The guy asked if he could borrow my shovel. I hit him with it!