The pattern is beginning to turn and get very interesting indeed. Recall the record tying North Pacific storm from a week or so ago, well it looks as though Storm Frank is about to do the same in the North Atlantic. So why am I telling you about a storm heading for Iceland in a US post?

Not only is Frank going to go from 969mb to below 93omb within 24 hours but it’s the huge influence it will have on pumping heat from the tropics into the Arctic.

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This powerhouse storm is riding the separating boundary between deep trough over Greenland and the strong ridge over Scandinavia and with nowhere to go but due north, that injection of heat into the polar region means a huge large scale height rise and flip coming.

Check out the CFSv2 weekly 5-day mean 500mb height anomalies and see the flip.

EPS Control day 0, 5 and 10 day snap shots.

This will make for a very different January to December that’s for sure.

See today’s video for the discussion.

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