I traveled to Boston Massachusetts to interview one of the people who created the bomb cyclone term Dr. John Gyakum. Dr Gyakum is now a professor in meteorology at McGill University in Montreal Quebec, Canada. Dr. Gyakum along with Fred Sanders introduced the term in a 1980 meteorology paper. A bomb cyclone is a weather phenomenon that we experience on…

After a fairly quiet weekend of weather, the week ahead is looking quite unsettled. An area of low pressure heading to our west by Monday morning will spread precipitation across the state. While we will be on the warmer side of the storm, we could see enough cold air for a wintry mix to start Monday morning. The best chance…

Wind chills could be below zero by Thursday morning.

The NBC Connecticut Meteorologists have issued a First Alert for a wintry mix that could affect your Tuesday morning commute.

What started off as snow overnight quickly turned to sleet and freezing rain early Tuesday morning. So why the change of wintry weather? For snow to fall, the entire atmospheric column has to be below 32 degrees. Whenever we start incorporating warmer air into the atmosphere, our precipitation type begins to change. Sleet is created when a layer of warm…

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