Category: arctic cold

First Arctic Blast of the winter arrives Sunday

December 12, 2025

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, winter

An Arctic cold front is poised to deliver the first major blast of cold air this winter later this weekend.
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Arctic cold to relent in the coming days

January 22, 2025

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, Daily Memphian, forecast discussion

An Arctic blast was promised and Mother Nature delivered. Unfortunately for snow lovers, the most recent winter storm missed us to the south.
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Another Arctic blast on the horizon

January 15, 2025

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, Daily Memphian, forecast discussion

An intrusion of polar air is headed for the central and eastern United States. The Mid-South will bear the brunt of it around the MLK Day holiday.
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Arctic airmass trails Sunday’s stormy front

January 4, 2025

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, severe thunderstorms, winter weather

The Mid-South will experience weather whiplash over the next 36 hours as a significant cold front ushers in the coldest air of the season this week.
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2025 starts cold, and a brief recap of 2024

January 1, 2025

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Erik Proseus

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annual summary, arctic cold, forecast discussion, winter

Preliminary numbers are in and 2024 was warmer and wetter than average in Memphis. However, 2025 appears ready to reverse course, at least for the first couple of weeks!
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“Arctic Blast” – Video Forecast Discussion – December 20, 2022

December 20, 2022

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, forecast discussion, video, winter storm

As the coldest December air in 33 years prepares to infiltrate the Mid-South just ahead of the busy holiday weekend, we review the atmospheric setup, the timing, the impacts, how to best prepare, and how long this cold spell will last! Below are a couple of the graphics used in the video to help summarize…
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Arctic airmass intrusions and snow chances

January 17, 2019

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, forecast discussion, winter

While the cool, damp conditions and overcast skies of late are fairly normal for winter in Memphis, it appears Mother Nature may be poised to send “real” winter our way starting this weekend. While that means the collective antennae of Mid-South meteorologists are “up” for winter precipitation chances, the most likely result of this pattern…
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Liberty Bowl forecast, NYE snow chances, and more Arctic cold

December 28, 2017

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, event weather, holiday, liberty bowl

The cold is here, and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon! Unfortunately the best we can expect is some fluctuations in the magnitude of the cold, but not necessarily a full reprieve for a while. Let’s start with the near-term. After a couple of bitterly cold days, the next reprieve arrives tomorrow and Saturday when…
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“10 Things You Should Know” with snow in the forecast

January 3, 2017

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, snow

Several thoughts as another “2016-’17 Winter Season” #ArcticFront comes barreling our way. 1. Fortunately, severe weather didn’t materialize in our area on Monday. Plenty of thunder (even thunderfog, which is almost as cool as thundersnow), but no high wind or hail. I’m good with that. I root for people, not storms, despite trying to produce…
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Strong storms precede Arctic cold & a commentary on storm warnings

December 18, 2016

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, commentary, event recap, severe thunderstorms

As we predicted in our Friday evening blog, this was indeed a wild and wacky weekend in Mid-South weather. An Arctic cold front, bringing a surge of the coldest air felt yet this winter, sparked widespread thunderstorms along and just behind the front. Wind, both ahead of and behind the front, was a significant issue…
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Weekend Update – Memphis weather style

December 2, 2016

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, event weather, forecast discussion

Lots of activities going on this weekend in the Memphis area, involving tens of thousands locally and, literally, from across the United States. It’s St. Jude Marathon weekend and Christmas parade season! Unfortunately, Mother Nature is not going to be too cooperative as we see a round of precipitation move up from the southwest and…
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On Arctic cold and multiple winter weather chances

January 17, 2016

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, forecast discussion, snow

Cold weather has come to stay for a while and while it’s not as cold as places to our north… Sunday noon wind chill values. Graphic courtesy WeatherBell. …it’s still cold by southern standards! The cold air in place will mean there will be a few time periods I’ll be watching for the potential for…
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Do you like it hot or cold outside? This tool tells you where you should live!

September 18, 2015

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, excessive heat, regional weather, weather tools

I usually don’t share this type of thing via the blog, but I found this weather-based tool pretty interesting. The amount of data analysis one can do quickly and easily on the web these days is pretty amazing. This geographic tool, which I saw first on a Capital Weather Gang blog, falls in that category.…
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No-foolin’ Arctic airmass takes Mid-South’s collective breath away

January 8, 2015

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, event recap

The much anticipated Arctic airmass arrived as forecast overnight, though it’s easy to forget what wind chills of zero feel like when it’s been a year since their last visit! It almost just makes it hard to breath. Temperatures plummeted into the single digits across nearly the entire metro this morning with wind chills hovering…
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Arctic high brings prolonged sub-freezing conditions to the Mid-South

January 6, 2015

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, freeze, wind chill

By now, most are aware that bitterly cold Arctic air will encompass the region for the latter half of the week thanks to a massive ridge of high pressure building into the region from western Canada. This will be the coldest air Memphis has experienced since last January, which featured two Arctic blasts of this…
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Temperature roller coaster in town for a few days with thunder at its apex!

January 2, 2015

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, forecast discussion, thunderstorms

Miss the Zippin’ Pippin? Well a roller coaster of another sort will be visiting Memphis over the next day or two, one featuring some wild swings in temperatures as a strong storm system approaches the area. Unfortunately, it also will be bringing us high chances of rain and even some thunder that will dampen any…
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Arctic intrusions could be the norm for the second half of November

November 9, 2014

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, forecast discussion

As you’ve no doubt heard, the first major Arctic outbreak of the “winter” is closing in on the Mid-South (and please don’t call it the polar vortex or I’ll have to sic Guido on you!). Enjoy the next 36 hours or so because we won’t see temperatures this warm again for some time. Model data…
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Cool weather expected to turn much colder next week

November 6, 2014

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, forecast discussion, seasonal outlook

If you don’t like cool weather, I recommend you stop reading now. OK maybe not, but this post is going to be all about below normal temperatures, so put on your gloves and earmuffs and continue on, intrepid readers! What’s average? We’ll start with where we’re supposed to be, because sometimes that gets lost in…
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A Mixed Bag: Warm and wet followed by possible winter weather

January 30, 2014

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, cold front, forecast discussion, winter weather

Overview: After a much colder than average January for the Memphis metro we’ll finally start to see a warmer pattern take shape for the next few days. A building ridge to our east will help bring warmer, moist air into the region into this weekend. As you can probably expect, with any warm flow coming…
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Frigid Tonight and Tomorrow with Gradual Warming Thereafter

January 27, 2014

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, forecast discussion

Another arctic air mass is already affecting the Mid-South with frigid conditions expected through Wednesday night. Gradual warming is expected each day, building to the 50’s expected Friday. I’m sure most of our followers know by now that quite the rare winter weather event is setting up for a good portion of the Gulf and…
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