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Old 12-13-2015, 09:32 PM
 
Location: Broward County, FL
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High of 79 F today. Now if I can just manage to avoid 80 F tomorrow...



If the NW flow is strong enough this weekend, it will happen!



An area in far western Oklahoma near the border to Colorado that averages over 25" per year to be exact.
We're forecast 69/58 for Saturday down here according to TWC and 72/57 according to the NWS. Much better than the weather we've been having, but it would be nice to see those numbers go down a bit. Of course, back to the bull**** 82/71 days right after.
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Old 12-13-2015, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Broward County, FL
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High of 79 F today. Now if I can just manage to avoid 80 F tomorrow...



If the NW flow is strong enough this weekend, it will happen!



An area in far western Oklahoma near the border to Colorado that averages over 25" per year to be exact.
Also not to mention Boise City, OK averages more snow than Bridgeport during the month of December.
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Old 12-13-2015, 09:46 PM
 
Location: Lexington, KY
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As crazy as this weekend was, you only need to go back 2 years to find a warmer December day for LEX. 4 days before Christmas in 2013, a high of 72F.

Look at the hourly history, it occurred well after sunset! And followed by heavy thunderstorms with a 65mph wind gust!? I don't remember any of that

Weather History for Lexington, KY | Weather Underground
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Old 12-13-2015, 11:19 PM
 
Location: White House, TN
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As crazy as this weekend was, you only need to go back 2 years to find a warmer December day for LEX. 4 days before Christmas in 2013, a high of 72F.

Look at the hourly history, it occurred well after sunset! And followed by heavy thunderstorms with a 65mph wind gust!? I don't remember any of that

Weather History for Lexington, KY | Weather Underground
Similar circumstances in White House, TN. I remember it. It was 4 days before my 21st birthday.
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Old 12-13-2015, 11:27 PM
 
Location: White House, TN
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Is this winter going to be hopelessly delayed, or a total disaster like 2011-2012? I would like a winter that actually happens during, um, "winter". As in a good snow before New Year's Day and the coldest period between Christmas and Valentine's Day.
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Old 12-14-2015, 04:12 AM
 
Location: The canyon (with my pistols and knife)
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In the summer, the current prevailing weather pattern would result in widespread 90s and 100s in the Northeast, South, Ohio Valley and (to a lesser extent) Great Lakes, right?
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Old 12-14-2015, 04:58 AM
 
Location: Near the Coast SWCT
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It's literally depressing to see if you don't want warmth in winter.

Without getting too technical... Just focus on the thick blue line. That's the Jet Stream. Cold on the north side of it.

Notice it dips all the way to the South this weekend and we are deep inside the trough (cold air, NW Flow)

Then what happens? ... Pops back up to Canada. We warm up again.

Notice something else...

The storm after storm after storm heading to Great Lakes. That ensures surges of heat into the East. unreal

A stormy pattern and we couldn't get the Jet stream to dip in the East.




(Had to make small to keep GIF file small)




You can play the loop yourself. Click "Loop All" button at the Center Right of this page.


Any moisture (green colors) on the north side of the thick blue line = snow. Notice.. none for the East next 14 days only scattered stuff around the Northeast and Lake Effect snows. When its cold, there's no storms.


Notice the snowstorm over and over again in the plains states and Minnesota. That's about where the Jet axis is and has been and isn't changing!


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Old 12-14-2015, 07:47 AM
 
Location: Near the Coast SWCT
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I..N..S..A..N..E

Gfs has near 70 on Christmas eve and day. Even if not that.. its gonna be friggin warm as hell

https://twitter.com/TomNiziol/status/676381144816984064
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Old 12-14-2015, 09:08 AM
 
Location: Lexington, KY
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Similar circumstances in White House, TN. I remember it. It was 4 days before my 21st birthday.
Cool, didn't know your birthday was Christmas!

Look at all the severe weather that night. 3 reports of EF1 tornado in KY (including one county over from me) plus house siding ripped off in Lexington. So weird that I have no recollection of this.

SPC Severe Weather Event Review for Saturday December 21, 2013

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In the summer, the current prevailing weather pattern would result in widespread 90s and 100s in the Northeast, South, Ohio Valley and (to a lesser extent) Great Lakes, right?
Probably widespread upper 70s dewpoints and thunderstorms, given that we've been in S/SW flow. But just wait, as soon as we reach July it'll be completely flipped with one Canadian high after another invading from the NW.
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Old 12-14-2015, 09:58 AM
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Location: Tennessee
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Many people in the US have never experienced anything like a warm December in the east, with a cold west.

Unless they are old enough to remember 1984



Or are really old




It's interesting, as somebody pointed out, because what happens next.




Of course it could be like 72, which wouldn't be all that bad for some of us.

Of course that might mean a Feb 1972, which nobody ever wants to see again.
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