Spring 2016 thread (Northern Hemisphere) (snowing, warmest, record, temperature)
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Warmest day since March 10th for CT coast. Notice last 4 days got warmer and warmer.
btw.. gfs has been back to just seasonable all month with periods of below normal at times. No more crazy heat its showing.
I wasnt expecting today to overperform the way it did, should reach at least 70 tomorrow at this rate. Hopefully the GFS flips back to above normal, although seasonable isn't bad at this point, our current averages are fairly comfortable.
Current temp in Denver: 33 F
Current temp in Edmonton, Canada: 63 F
Don't you just love western North America and their bizarre weather, especially during spring?
Denver is 3,000 ft higher in elevation. How bout when Alaska is warmer than Georgia? That probably happens more often than Edmonton being warmer than Denver given the typical polar Jetstream position shown in the linked image.
Remember, this is the "average" position, so yes it dips over the West at times. But in winter its favorite position is right over you. Hence the totally unstable subtropical climates of the South.
The geography of North America is responsible for this.
Denver is 3,000 ft higher in elevation. How bout when Alaska is warmer than Georgia? That probably happens more often than Edmonton being warmer than Denver given the typical polar Jetstream position shown in the linked image.
Remember, this is the "average" position, so yes it dips over the West at times. But in winter its favorite position is right over you. Hence the totally unstable subtropical climates of the South.
The geography of North America is responsible for this.
Actually, I don't think it is necessarily showing that the average position is a dip over the East, so much as it is just showing that the Jet Stream moves southwards closer to the Equator from summer to winter.
Actually, I don't think it is necessarily showing that the average position is a dip over the East, so much as it is just showing that the Jet Stream moves southwards closer to the Equator from summer to winter.
Look at avg winter temps and that jet stream position. Then keep in mind elevation. The North American Cordillera causes a typical ridge in the western longitudes.
Looking at that dip, though, it doesn't seem that all of the East is afflicted.
Well that is average. That jet has dipped well into Florida at times. I mean Georgia has seen single digits lol. When has lowland CA ever seen single digits? Or Phoenix or any part of lowland Arizona? It just doesn't happen except for the East. I blame geography and those mountains that run north-south and not east-west.
Somehow I think that if the entire western US were as flat as the eastern US, and no Rocky Mountains, that polar jet would just not do extreme dips like that in winter.
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