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Lot’s of fun and games with the upper low that’s currently over Southern California. While parts of SoCal saw flooding downpours and dramatic lightning displays, even hail and funnels, this was the scene yesterday afternoon up at Big Bear Mountain. I wonder when the last time there was snow in the mountains of SoCal this […]
The US drought map has been updated (20th rather than 13th) and it continues to show the two main areas where drought is extreme at this time. I think it’s safe to say that by the time we reach the end of June or July, that drought in Northwest Texas, western Oklahoma SHOULD be less. […]
Strong, damaging storms have hit an area stretching from Denver to Ohio for a 2nd straight day. Denver has now seen two straight afternoons were large, damaging and accumulating hail have hit insurers hard. Check out this amazing image captured a little earlier by the Denver police dept. They report 5″ of hail. Check out […]
Rather than the huge meridional pattern with record heat on one side, flooding rain on the other with snow and record cold in between, we have a much broader positive height field across the nation. A little more typical of late May, however the one big fly in the ointment is the undercutting trough that’s now […]
It’s looking like relief is coming this summer to one of the two major drought areas across the US. While California is unlikely to get any appreciable relief over the next 2-3 months, it looks promising on the Southern Plains. Unless you live there and are feeling the effects each and every day, it may be easy […]
In the past 7 days, we saw an extreme pattern with the heat in the West, chill over the Plains, heat and flooding from the Ohio Valley to East Coast. This week we see a less extreme situation with rainfall and temperature distributed much more evenly across the country. This looks like a promising setup for the worst areas affected […]
The very progressive but unusually late warm-cold fight looks to continue across the US through the next few days as seen by the CFSv2 weeklies. Here’s the latest look at the CFSv2 which shows little chance through the upcoming summer. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] July August The Jamstec also remains chilly through the summer. [/s2If][s2If current_user_cannot(access_s2member_level1)][magicactionbox id=”18716″][/s2If]
Each and every post these days seems to consist of heat, cold, snow and rain and on the ‘extreme’ end of the ledger. Yesterday saw widespread upper 90s at the beaches to mid 100s in the deserts of Southern California. Firstly, here’s the initial upper air pattern according to the ECMWF which continues to support this extreme setup. […]
The extreme upper air pattern remains in place across the US with record heat along with raging wildfires in Southern California while the heat remains over the Ohio Valley but it’s been squashed on the Northeast coast thanks to an easterly wind. The chill remains over the heartland with a low down to at least 10F in […]
From the heavy snows across Denver, Cheyenne and the Rockies yesterday, this extreme pattern is changing shape as we push towards mid week. A powerful ridge building over the West Coast is bringing California it’s first major heat of the year. Although it’s been warm many times up till now, the Los Angeles Basin shall […]
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