Spring 2016 thread (Northern Hemisphere) (hot, warmest, temp, Chicago)
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4th day in a row with clear, blue, sunny skies. Not a cloud in sight. Incredible!
Looks like Nantucket is getting some clouds on the edge there but no worries for us.. No clouds around now stuck under a ridge of High Pressure. DRY DRY DRY! Enjoy the weekend guys
Here's why.... Current 500mb heights...(Jet Stream)
1. Ridge of High pressure = cloudless days
2. Without those Upper lows around providing cold and snow, the main Jet is far north in Canada so the entire U.S would be Very warm and above normal. But because of those ULL, only those under the ridge are.
850mb temps aren't blasting hot so we wont see widespread torching heat under the ridge at the surface.
4th day in a row with clear, blue, sunny skies. Not a cloud in sight. Incredible!
Looks like Nantucket is getting some clouds on the edge there but no worries for us.. No clouds around now stuck under a ridge of High Pressure. DRY DRY DRY! Enjoy the weekend guys
Here's why.... Current 500mb heights...(Jet Stream)
1. Ridge of High pressure = cloudless days
2. Without those Upper lows around providing cold and snow, the main Jet is far north in Canada so the entire U.S would be Very warm and above normal. But because of those ULL, only those under the ridge are.
850mb temps aren't blasting hot so we wont see widespread torching heat under the ridge at the surface.
Dewpoints very low, same pattern keeps occuring each day
Yup.. things are still flowing if thats what you implied but because its expansive its the same results day after day. But the air is still moving aloft.
In fact Read last sentence in that NWS Lincoln graphic. Its shifting now. It never stopped but Lincoln has been in it before us so now they'll finally see some changes but it was still moving...just slowly because of the block in the Atlantic.
Its funny, isnt it? We look up we see blue everyday and think nothing is moving. Lol. Our temps have gone up each day because the ridge has been shifting this whole time.
But because its large and slow it feels like it hasnt moved.
Cut-off upper lows near the Four Corners are the most common set-up for heavy snow in the Denver area, especially in autumn and spring. The biggest snows in Boulder are several times more likely during El Niño than La Niña. However, a weak La Niña was in place 95 years ago this weekend, when a similar but stronger cut-off low led to the heaviest official 24-hour snowfall in U.S. records: 75.8”, recorded on April 14-15, 1921, at Silver Lake, about 30 miles west of Boulder at an elevation near 10,000 feet. The observer on site reported a total of 95 inches in just 48 hours
Streets and soil are quite warm around Denver after temperatures soared into the 70s on Thursday; between this and high-angle sunlight filtering through, there may be enough melting to keep snowfall on the ground and on highways well below the totals gleaned from snow measuring boards.
You might actually like summer in Portland or San Diego far more than here. And just think what you can grow.
I think I see myself getting seasonal homes somewhere. Dry and warm enough summers. Cold and snowy winters. Summers under 80F with dewpoints under 30. Desert like.
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