Spring 2016 thread (Northern Hemisphere) (climate, snowy, warm, record)

[Cambium]

Ok, here we go... Ouch is probably the word because its been all night for some folks below freezing.


Couple of 6am temp maps this morning & surface map.
Yes, the Vortex and cold Airmass aloft did its dirty work and has left, and now the High pressure is dominating with radiational cooling effect.


30s down to SC, 20s in NC, teens in New England but there are local teens in NJ, PA, NY

[Cambium]

Yesterdays image of the snow cover and some identifiable things

[Cambium]

1-2-3.......4 Punch?

Left image is for this weekend, Cold blast #3.. Deep and south again too.


Right image is for mid Next week. We do it again but not as deep.


Cold shot after cold shot. More below normal than above normal days to mid month. Will April end up below normal??

[nei]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Ok, here we go... Ouch is probably the word because its been all night for some folks below freezing.


Couple of 6am temp maps this morning & surface map.
Yes, the Vortex and cold Airmass aloft did its dirty work and has left, and now the High pressure is dominating with radiational cooling effect.


30s down to SC, 20s in NC, teens in New England but there are local teens in NJ, PA, NY

Hmm, overnight low was around 14°F. 9°F didn't pan out:

Originally Posted by nei

Low of 9°F/-13°C forecast tonight. Coldest temperature on record for April is 8°F (Amherst COOP), April 1, 1923. Normal for today: 55°F/31°F.

But looks like it did in some spots northeast of me did. Not enough radiational cooling here?

Originally Posted by Cambium

Yup... just as I said... unbelievable. . NWS Philly lowered the min temps tonight for their forecast areas. Models busting too warm

Best of luck to farmers

Strange to me to hear talk of crops now, it's weeks before the start of growing season. As you see above, average low is 31°F.

[Cambium]

Actual Minimum temps today. Yikes





Smart Thinking, Blueberry Farm in NJ uses power of water to keep temperatures up in blueberry fields by flooding them


https://twitter.com/mcadehaven/statu...561537/photo/1

[chicagogeorge]

First half of April is a foregone conclusion for cool conditions in Eastern CONUS..... Second half of April has good potential for above average conditions


https://twitter.com/GenscapeWx/statu...96766171287552

[SFX]

Originally Posted by tom77falcons

So, this is because of a piece of the polar vortex broke off and came down to Quebec. I've asked this before in winter, but I'm not sure I got an answer. Is there anywhere else in the Northern Hemisphere that seems to be the favored destination of the vortex when it breaks down? Why does a piece of it never go over the PNW, or Western Europe? It seems that whenever it breaks down it comes right for eastern North America.

While nobody called it a polar vortex (that didn't start being used again until 2014), winter storm Walda in 2013 is an example of the West getting the polar air, while the East gets the warm.

In 1974 the polar vortex was used to explain the West getting the cold, as well as the Midwest storms.

Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms—the Midwest's recent
rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example

TIME magazine 1974

It would be an entire topic just to discuss the ramifications and disputes over the polar vortex and weather.

But it's like everybody forgot the April 9 2013 winter storm that didn't hit the Eastern US.



It was also a record breaker. Note the record low temp, record low high temp, and record amount of snow.



The polar air doesn't always hit the East, it just seems that way since 2014/15/16 have been so cold and snowy.

1974 was a simpler time, so long ago most people don't even remember when the cold was blamed on something as singular as the Sunspot cycle, or dust.

"The changing weather is apparently connected with differences in the amount of energy that the earth's surface receives from the sun."

IMNSHO of course.

[SFX]

Now back to the current spring weather.

[Warszawa]

Originally Posted by SFX

While nobody called it a polar vortex (that didn't start being used again until 2014), winter storm Walda in 2013 is an example of the West getting the polar air, while the East gets the warm.

In 1974 the polar vortex was used to explain the West getting the cold, as well as the Midwest storms.
TIME magazine 1974

It would be an entire topic just to discuss the ramifications and disputes over the polar vortex and weather.

But it's like everybody forgot the April 9 2013 winter storm that didn't hit the Eastern US.



It was also a record breaker. Note the record low temp, record low high temp, and record amount of snow.



The polar air doesn't always hit the East, it just seems that way since 2014/15/16 have been so cold and snowy.

1974 was a simpler time, so long ago most people don't even remember when the cold was blamed on something as singular as the Sunspot cycle, or dust.

"The changing weather is apparently connected with differences in the amount of energy that the earth's surface receives from the sun."

IMNSHO of course.

Well you have to admit that the past three years the arctic has been unloading on the east coast relentlessly, unleashing a blitzkrieg of wind, snow, and freezing air. The only time it spared us was during this El Niño winter from November to March. If not for the El Niño it would be the same story as the nightmarish 2014 and 2015 winters

My house had a fight tree that was there since the mid 80s yet these two past winters were too much. That alone shows how rough we had it!

[chicagogeorge]

Quite toast in Inland SoCal