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Looks like my corner of northeast Georgia is going to catch up a bit on winter in the next week, starting tonight. One of the local climatic oddities I get is cold air damming on the leeward side of the Appalachian Mountains. This tends to happen with strong high pressure to the north and/or low pressure to the south, which produces an easterly or northeasterly wind that comes straight off the Atlantic Ocean and gets lifted orographically as it ascends the Georgia and Carolina Piedmont to the base of the mountains. In effect, the leeward side of the mountains becomes the windward side, and the weather conditions become cool and cloudy, with precipitation amounts dependent upon proximity to low pressure. If there's just a strong high to the north and no low nearby, then it's just cool and cloudy, and sometimes foggy. If there is a low nearby, however, then I can get a steady, all-day rain event from it. It's very similar to how the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains will get cool, inclement weather in the event of cyclogenesis to the south. On the Piedmont, this phenomenon happens most frequently between November and April, and it looks like it's going to happen here on Sunday and Monday. Temperatures aren't forecast to get out of the 40s either day, and there's a high likelihood of precipitation both days. I actually like cold rain in the winter, so I plan to make the most of it by sleeping in on Sunday, and possibly (hopefully) Monday too, if I don't have to work that day. So bring on the cold air damming!
Not comparable, US is a lot more extreme! No one in Europe achieved those winter extremes from many southern californian parts and other places!
Imagine that the all time maximum temperature recorded in January in a official european station is 29.2ºC in Alicante (84,6F). That's nothing for the US!
It's still very warm, especially for the first week of March. Our 31C (Chicago) came during the last week of March both in 1986 and in 2012.
Record breaking temperatures in parts of Spain today:
Toledo 29.0C - previous record high 27.6C (2015)
Alcantarilla Air Base 33.3C - previous record high 33.0C (1981)
Murcia 33.6C - previous record high 32.6C (2015)
Alicante Airport 34.8C - previous record high 33.0C (1988)
Logrono Airport 28.8C - previous record high 27.6C (2001)
Alicante reached the overall March maximum record in Europe today with 34.8C / 94,64F and it's just 10th of March!
Notable warmth (& close to records) in many places too (March record highs in brackets):
A Coruna 27.6C (28.2C)
A Coruna Airport 27.6C (28.0C)
Lugo Airport 26.9C (27.8C)
Bilbao Airport 27.8C (29.8C)
Madrid Airport 25.9C (27.1C)
Madrid Cuatro Vientos 26.2C (27.0C)
Ciudad Real 27.1C (29.0C)
Granada Airport 29.7C (31.2C)
San Javier Airport 31.0C (31.5C)
Alicante 32.5C (32.6C)
Hope it stays warm Friday-Monday in Phoenix, then Im going to Las Vegas Monday night through Wednesday and back to Phoenic that Thursday. Come back to Chicago Friday the 24th.
Amazing climate Bunghamton, congratulations. Because everyone loves sub freezing weather on St. Paddy's Day. I surely have no idea why this place is losing population faster than Liverpool is losing the league, it's a total mystery to me
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