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The "Pacific Southwest" (California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah) appear quite cool today, even the SE Californian and Arizona areas are almost universally below 15°C in the middle of afternoon.
The "Pacific Southwest" (California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah) appear quite cool today, even the SE Californian and Arizona areas are almost universally below 15°C in the middle of afternoon.
Cool map ...no pun intended...
Currently...
Phoenix....12C
Tucson .....11C
Yuma ......14C
St George Utah...7C
Las Vegas, Nevada ....9C
Warmer in Toronto today than Vegas
Even colder in southern NM and West TX....
El Paso ....3C
Las Cruces....2C
Alamogordo....2C
Widespread snowfall in southern New Mexico today...
Yet another week, Yet another wasted storm. I was tired of rain in the Summer and Fall I am getting really fed up now that its winter.
At least Northern New England is getting some winter out of these.
These lake cutters and Appalachian tracks are killing winter!
You do not have 1 storm a week often but we have been because it's an active pattern.
Problem is.. There's no Ridge out West!!!! We need that ridge to pump up to BC and dig a trough in the Eastern U.S.
Next storm after New Years Eve is January 8th but look at the Upper Level flow. It's fast. so no storms can blow up.
Now we have to wait till Mid January>?????!
I'm trying to retain my composure and not rant about this winters lack of snow.
The only thing saving me is the fact that its snowed a ton in the past 8 yrs.
Here..............find it................look for it.......... don't blink.
Where is the Western Ridge?????????????????????????
Good for California but sucks for Eastern U.S winter snow lovers. No big snowstorms with this but there can be cold shots. Not deep Arctic blasts. Something happened to change the entire flow of things.
Jet dipping over the Rockies several times, zonal, and quick ridge action before another trough pushes it out..
I see the South East Ridge more often than a Western Ridge. Looks like Central U.S is getting the Ridge. Huge changes from what November had.
Alaska being snowy and Eastern U.S is no surprise.
Yeah, it's really unseasonably cold there, also extending into Northern Mexico. Currently the east-facing side of Baja California is at 15°C on the shoreline and that is the warm side (Santa RosalÃa, 21.7°C December average high). Even all the way down at Cabo San Lucas, it seems like it's only 22°C, with the coastline off Culiacán being a full degree cooler than that.
So, while obviously it isn't a proper cold wave in the west as us on upper latitudes would know it as, those are still very atypical temperatures this time of the year in North America's western tropics!
The most stunning part from your chart however from observations I've done tonight, is that an offshore North Atlantic area at 71°N is equal in temperature to Las Vegas (7°C), this while Vegas enjoyed mid-day warming and it being late evening under polar night offshore from Norway...
Yeah, it's really unseasonably cold there, also extending into Northern Mexico. Currently the east-facing side of Baja California is at 15°C on the shoreline and that is the warm side (Santa RosalÃa, 21.7°C December average high). Even all the way down at Cabo San Lucas, it seems like it's only 22°C, with the coastline off Culiacán being a full degree cooler than that.
So, while obviously it isn't a proper cold wave in the west as us on upper latitudes would know it as, those are still very atypical temperatures this time of the year in North America's western tropics!
The most stunning part from your chart however from observations I've done tonight, is that an offshore North Atlantic area at 71°N is equal in temperature to Las Vegas (7°C), this while Vegas enjoyed mid-day warming and it being late evening under polar night offshore from Norway...
The West in the past few winters has been stuck in a ridiculously resilient ridge (RRR) so it's about time they get a trough. Of course a trough out there means temps in the low to mid 60's (62 in LA today, that's about Austin's average high in December when we get "normal" weather). In about a week a large storm is on its way to SF and LA. Hopefully they'll get pounded with rain, they need it.
A big trough is digging into Austin. Currently 47, 43 in Dallas, 59 in Houston, 62 in New Orleans. New Orleans is always more moderated because it is surrounded by so many bodies of water which means in winter it gets heavy fog but milder temps. In summer it also keeps the temps cooler but more humid.
I agree. This pattern is quite strange. Trough in Midwest all the way down to Gulf South and spilling over to Desert Southwest. Southeast warm and Northeast unseasonably mild.
Oh well, the NE got really cold at Thanksgiving. Usually if you get extreme cold too early you're bound to get a ridge later. Sometimes it's better for cold weather lovers to want a milder November so the extreme December cold can hit. They don't seem to realize that. A trough isn't going to last from November to February. But it could last from December to January. In this case you got a November trough and then December ridge, what will happen in January is unsure, all models disagree at this point.
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