A wild, dynamic and highly amplified pattern has led to wild and extreme weather across the US.
The wind was one thing but the heat? Well it was incredible by October standards. Highs soared to 99 degrees at Mooreton, North Dakota yesterday as a trough pushing onto the West Coast, has expanded north and east, an unusually hot air mass up along the Front Range of the Rockies and onto the Plains.
Big thermal gradient over North Dakota yesterday, just look at those highs in the SE…
Minnesota’s new records.
It started off in California and Southwest…
Record-High Temperatures: Sunday, Oct. 11
City, State | New Record (F) | Old Record (F) (Year) |
Los Angeles (Downtown) | 100 | 100 (1971) |
Long Beach, Calif. | 99 | 98 (1971) |
Burlington, Colo. | 97 | 94 (1975) |
Pueblo, Colo. | 94 | 89 (1989, 1996, 1999) |
Los Angeles International Airport | 94 | 93 (1971) |
Camarillo, Calif. | 94 | 90 (1971) |
Santa Barbara, Calif. | 90 | 85 (1983, 1991) |
Colorado Springs, Colo. | 87 | 82 (1975, 1989, 1996) |
South Lake Tahoe, Calif. | 78 | 77 (1995) |
A tight pressure as well as thermal gradient has generated dangerous winds.
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Winds reached hurricane-force over the Rockies causing big rigs to get blown over.
October’s gotten off to a very warm start in the West.
The summer-like heat shall continue through the rest of this week out West.
3rd Straight 100F For Los Angeles, CA
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA
915 PM PDT SUN OCT 11 2015
…LONGEST STRETCH OF TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES IN
MORE THAN 25 YEARS…
THE HIGH TEMPERATURE IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES AT USC FOR EACH OF THE
PAST 3 DAYS HAS BEEN 100 DEGREES. THAT IS THE GREATEST NUMBER OF
CONSECUTIVE DAYS WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES AT OR ABOVE 100 DEGREES
SINCE 1989…WHEN IT OCCURRED 4 DAYS IN A ROW FROM APRIL 4TH
THROUGH APRIL 7TH.
THE 3 DAY STRETCH OF TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT TIED FOR THE LONGEST SUCH
STREAK EVER TO OCCUR IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER…WHICH BEGAN OCTOBER
15TH 1958 AND CONTINUED THROUGH THE 17TH.
THE LONGEST STRETCH OF DAYS WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES AT OR ABOVE 100
DEGREES IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES WAS 8…EXTENDING FROM AUGUST 31ST
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 7TH 1955.
Meanwhile down to the south…
Why so warm?
On the Plains, the Canadian storm system which gave yesterday, takes back today…
A very tight baroclinic and thermal zone with strong vertically stacked winds has produced some incredible wind gusts today as well as yesterday.
Significant October Cold Shot For Midwest, Northeast Coming…
That storm system crossing Canada will help drive the coldest air mass since spring into the Midwest and Northeast this weekend.
No video tonight.
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