Your current weather may be around awhile. The large-scale weather pattern that's now influencing much of the USA's weather – known as an omega block because of its resemblance to the Greek letter ...
BIG COUNTRY, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – If you have been keeping an eye on weather forecasts recently, you may have heard meteorologists mention something called an “omega block”. A couple of days ago, ...
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Omega blocks are aptly named for their distinct shape resembling the Greek letter, omega ( Ω ). An omega block occurs when an area of high pressure becomes positioned between two ...
Have you noticed how cold and cloudy it's been lately? On top of that, we had snow Tuesday night with more on the way Thursday night! This weird April weather all stems from a unique weather pattern ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The start of May has not exactly delivered ideal weather for Western New York. Cloudy skies, occasional fog, and frequent showers have kept sunshine to a minimum. At News10NBC First ...
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — We have been stuck in this pattern of very gloomy, cold and wet weather for what seems like a while now. The reason for all of this is that we are under the influence of ...
Plenty of weather patterns have strange but fitting names. Brutal nor’easters can rapidly strengthen as bomb cyclones. Ferocious squalls lines can grow into derechos. Storms aren't the only features ...
The U.S. remains in a weather pattern that hasn’t varied much this week, with the FOX Forecast Center expecting what is known as an “Omega block” to continue to dominate through the end of the ...
An “omega block” occurs when the jet stream undergoes extreme buckling and becomes wavy, instead of flowing west to east across the country. Such a weather pattern interferes with the normal ...
The U.S. is in store for a weather pattern that won’t vary much in the week ahead, with the FOX Forecast Center anticipating what is known as an “Omega block” to dominate. An Omega block is simply a ...
The Omega block weather pattern may be all Greek to some, but it is actually one of the more popular blocking patterns that meteorologist refer to nowadays. This pattern sets in when two cutoff lows ...