Category: Migration Radar

  • Pesky low part deux

    There’s a low pressure system currently parked right over us and its position has resulted in little to no migration into or out of NJ last night. Here’s the radar from 7:30pm last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. So I guess […]

  • Migration under [low] pressure

    While migration was hot and heavy for the Central and Mississippi flyways, and downright spectacular for the Eastern Flyway south of the Delmarva, a string of low pressure cells which drifted northwest over the region had a profound negative effect on migration into NJ. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:00am this morning. […]

  • A low that won’t go and the weekend outlook

    Right now it looks like our best bet for heavy migration into the eastern mid-Atlantic will be tonight, when upper-level winds across New England and NY are out of the NNW. Expect upper-level winds to turn more northerly overnight  and eventually northeasterly tomorrow (ouch!). That’s not the worst of it- right now it looks like […]

  • A pain in the front

    Hey cold front- here’s the plan: Come in from the west, stick around for a day if you’d like, and then march on out to the Atlantic like you’re ‘supposed’ to. Let the high pressure build in behind you and give the next front a chance to move in. And the beat goes on. Of […]

  • Finally some cooperative weather! (UPDATE)

    Blurry-eyed from walking the streets of Cape May listening to nocturnal flight calls and trying to get out the door this morning, here’s the radar from 7:30pm last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Things began to fall into place a night […]

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