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As the East Coast is not enduring hurricanes, what other ways can we see offshore waters cool enough that allows an Arctic High to weaken less in winter? Nor’ Easters would do the trick!
Gales, heavy rain and even snow created horrible conditions over the weekend across the Northeast with inland snows. This second system was part of a “twin storm complex” with the first system dumping 6-10 inches of snow on State College, PA and brought a local state of emergency to that region with trees down everywhere and thousands without power.
It even snowed in Boston and of course areas further away from the warm Atlantic with a dusting across the higher ground on central and western Massachusetts. 20 foot swells battered the beaches as well as 40 to 50 mph winds.
This Northeast Twin Storm Complex is a byproduct to the immense energy dispersed by Tyhoon Melor which firstly slammed Tokyo, Japan, then crossed the Pacific and battered the US West Coast with record rains and winds that topped 135 mph across the ridge tops of California and Nevada and now fed energy into forming two seperate low’s along the US Eastern Seaboard.
These Melor fed systems are now heading towards Western Europe and will likely alter the weather for Western and Central Europe, pushing out the high over the UK and and the low countries and then plowing the cold pool out of the heart of central Europe where heavy snows have continued to whiten the Alps of southern France, Switzerland, Austria, northern Italy and other countries in surrounding areas.
Gales, heavy rain and even snow created horrible conditions over the weekend across the Northeast with inland snows. This second system was part of a “twin storm complex” with the first system dumping 6-10 inches of snow on State College, PA and brought a local state of emergency to that region with trees down everywhere and thousands without power.
It even snowed in Boston and of course areas further away from the warm Atlantic with a dusting across the higher ground on central and western Massachusetts. 20 foot swells battered the beaches as well as 40 to 50 mph winds.
This Northeast Twin Storm Complex is a byproduct to the immense energy dispersed by Tyhoon Melor which firstly slammed Tokyo, Japan, then crossed the Pacific and battered the US West Coast with record rains and winds that topped 135 mph across the ridge tops of California and Nevada and now fed energy into forming two seperate low’s along the US Eastern Seaboard.
These Melor fed systems are now heading towards Western Europe and will likely alter the weather for Western and Central Europe, pushing out the high over the UK and and the low countries and then plowing the cold pool out of the heart of central Europe where heavy snows have continued to whiten the Alps of southern France, Switzerland, Austria, northern Italy and other countries in surrounding areas.
This Melor enhanced Atlantic depression will likely bring flooding to lower elevations of central and southern Europe and snow will be restricted to higher reaches of the Alps as warmer Atlantic air is driven into the heart of central Europe. The depression may become a British Isles wind event.
Remnants of Tyhoon Melor, Powerful enough to turn the Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation Positive?
The passage of Melor across the world may be showing us something greater than just a system that has energised cyclogenesis across the globe but what’s more interesting is the effect this energy has had on both AHEAD of it and in it’s wake..
Remnants of Tyhoon Melor, Powerful enough to turn the Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation Positive?
The passage of Melor across the world may be showing us something greater than just a system that has energised cyclogenesis across the globe but what’s more interesting is the effect this energy has had on both AHEAD of it and in it’s wake..
After a period of record snow and cold for North America and Europe, are we seeing the passing of Melor’s energy flipping the atmospheric dynamics of the Northern Hemisphere. It’s almost a mid-latitude equivalent to the Trop MJO pulse that enhances upward motion across the deep tropics of the planet.
However, the Melor example appears to have brought unusual early season Arctic air soth into areas normally still enjoying late season mild weather or Indian Summer and in it’s wake, “STRAIGHTENED OUT THE SHEETS, meaning what was a highly amplified pattern has become zonal, oceanic and void of Arctic cold. A flip from negative to positive Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation right before our eyes.
If you notice Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado across the Plains and Pennsylvania is WARMING in the WAKE of these systems..
If what I am saying has merit, what does this mean?
The Arctic air that is greatly weakened over the pole when it is pushed south, can now reload, confining the polar vortex to over top of the pole where there is minimal sunlight, snow cover and intensifying cold air. Once this is recharged sometime in early December, if we get another flip to negative, then there’s a mightly cold blast coming back to the mid-latitudes were a lot of people live..
An El Nino pattern in place, a very low solar cycle, colder Pacific and North Atlantic waters suggest to me, that there is something brewing, starting now, possibly thanks in part to Melor and as our temperature-region of the continents we live in become mild again, the next time a flip in the NAO/AO comes, be prepared…
>I suggest that frost is an unlikely event during these times of extreme global warming. You should be asking: when will I have the next bbq weather Jamie. The answer is I don't know yet. But I'd like an invite.
>Although it has been chilly, I still haven't had to scrape my car windscreen yet. How long before the Kingdom of Fife is attacked by frost?
>it snows in the Scottish highlands during each October. see the link for details of a snowfall event in September 2007.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7018182.stm
>I knew that this wee cold snap was nothing more than that. There's been little to suggest that its cooler than usual here in bonnie Fife.