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It will be 60 hrs straight without seeing the sun and guess what it's doing again today. drizzle & 30s.
With a SER, fronts just stall a lot. Ridge breaks down next week.
3pmEST map. Lots of clouds over the U.S right now
This weather has been great for the Midwest and Texas. We had twice the normal rainfall in December but a very dry January. Now the soils are moist and 3-4" upstream in the Hill Country means the Highland Lakes near Austin are doing well.
The upper Midwest was nearing a drought due to the horrible dry arctic weather this winter, so this moisture has literally been a God send. The Northeast wasn't in a drought because that nor'easter brought lots of precip during the winter, enough to stave off drought.
I'm wondering if all the ice in the Atlantic has melted? Earlier in January people were showing "slushy" ice. I bet that's all long gone now.
I know in the Midwest there was rain on top of frozen ground which can cause flooding, but it also can thaw the ground out real quickly, which is good so the soil can start absorbing some moisture.
All these extreme swings from polar vortex to an almost summer Bermuda High looking setup are why we are the bread basket of the world. Without those changes, the US would simply be like inner Mongolia. So cherish these systems, especially when a nice warm humid setup moistens stuff up.
Now we just need to get CA in on the rainy weather. Looks like that will happen next week. SF slated to get some good rainy season rains.
I used to live about 1 mile to the northwest of that station from 1963 till 2004. My house was on line with the east west runway at the older Tampa airport. My temps and local rainfall amounts would vary. That was another dry area where summer T storms would miss us all the time.
But still no records were broken in my area where i live. We used to have highs in the 40's about every year, then the last 6 years none. And none this year also. Only thing we did was have on sorry month of below normal temps out of the last 60+ months that were above normal.
Biggest snowfall of the season today. Officially 8cm in Vancouver so far today. Measured 13cm at my place.
Wow that's a lot.
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