Note to self: Did I ever subscribe to the weather channel?
Well, perhaps the kids did
;-)
Happy shooting
Philippe
Le 24 janv. 15 à 23:29, Chris Trask a écrit :
The mild temps this winter for around here. Temps running 8-12C.
avg.
Normal is 6-7C. Pushing mid 50's today with some of the usual
suspects
hitting 15C+ Not Moose-ish but the yard is liking it.
<<SNIP>>
Our temperatures here have also been mild, about 10F above
normal for the most of
the past four weeks. The lack of sufficient rain has had the
wildflower season in
jeopardy, but on Monday and again on Friday we are predicted to
have some widespread
rain, though the amount has yet to be determined. If we can get a
half inch or more
total then we'll have the season salvaged, though not entirely.
Shortly aftr I wrote that, I posted a weather warning on a
hiking list for southern Arizona, part of which was:
More ominous is a second large cutoff low that will affect us
starting Friday, with
widespread moisture developing rapidly in the morning and
continuing into Saturday.
Neither of these storms are very strong, but they are both
predicted to deliver a
good deal of moisture to our area. If this plays out as presently
predicted, we can
expect a decent wildflower season beginning next month.
Six hours later, I looked at the forecasting charts again and saw
that things had greatly deteriorated. The latest look at this
second storm shows that the amount of moisture predicted has
increased substantially. The rain should begin very early Friday,
and will continue at least through Sunday.
Far more serious is what will be taking place in the central US
and southern Canada. A second mass of Northern Pacific moisture
along the jet stream will arrive by way of western Canada, merging
with the southwestern mass late Friday. The result will be a
massive area of dense moisture that will cover the entire
Intermountain region from Canada to Mexico, extending further south
beyond Baja. The combination of the southwesterly flow from the
Pineapple Express and the northwesterly jet stream flow around a
large low-pressure system centered over Hudson Bay and Newfoundland
will push the moisture eastward, covering everything from the
Rockies to Maine and Georgia by Sunday, and the draw of moisture
from the southwest and northwest will not abate. At this time,
there is no reliable indication in the GFS plots to suggest when it
will subside, and the cutoff low will remain in place over northern
Baja on Sunday with no indication of movement.
This is the largest weather system seen so far this season, and
it may well make everything seen in the midwest and northeast so far
seem like a bad memory.
Let's hope that I'm being premature about this and that the
prediction will moderate. If not, then everything east of the
Rockies is in for one helluva ride.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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