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Quick look at the current flow at 27000 feet and surface temps.. One final southerly push for the East then the next trough moves in. Looking cold inside it for May standards..... Oh yeah, it's January. Forgot. lol
Spring time outside! Low to mid 50s out there. Meanwhile behind the front some moisture still around so it's snowing in Western PA.
Almost 60F in Philly at 9am.
Quick summary for Hartford:
Jan 1: 56°
Jan 5: Rain
Jan 7: 16°
Jan 9: Rain
Jan 11: 12°
Jan 16: 40°
Jan 19: Snow/Ice/Mix
Jan 21: -4°
Jan 24: 52° Rain
Warm/Rain
Cold/Dry
Wash, rinse, repeat.
If you want cold snowy weather you really have to live out West, higher elevation. Some mountainous locations in the Pacific Northwest feature lots of cold snowy weather and when the sun shines it's mild. For a place like Tahoe, it's not uncommon to have 50F sun when it's warm and then 20F snow. Rinse and repeat. Great ski weather and then great snowmaking weather. The Northeast gets the shaft.
That's why I prefer Med climates. When the sun shines in a Med climate that is warm weather. When there's precip it's cooler. The Northeast is so botched up with precip patterns.
I like the South in that the strong sun angle means even if we get arctic high pressure, it is modified by late afternoon from the strong sun angle. Right now there is about an hour more of sun than in late December and that helps moderate arctic weather. It's possible to get highs in the 30's under full sun in December but just about impossible in late January, with sun it almost always is above 40. This is why I prefer cloudy conditions in December and through about late January. Then sunny conditions can prevail because the sun can start working on the temp.
If you want cold snowy weather you really have to live out West, higher elevation..
As a coastie I don't think I would be able to live above 8000'.. I would however love to live above 2500' anywhere in Eastern U.S even North Carolina. I wouldn't mind that.
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Future loop. You think that snow over Western PA is coming? NOPE. POOF as it hits the Appalachians. Then tomorrow snow squalls around but again...POOF before getting to us.
Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Caribou ME
754 PM EST Tue Jan 22 2019
...PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...
The recent heavy snowfall across northern Maine has produced snow
depths that range from 29 to 42 inches across far northern Maine.
There is 6.4 to 8.4 inches of water contained within that heavy
snowpack. This will be one of many important factors that we will
be continuing to closely monitor this winter and as we approach
the spring break-up.
The recent heavy snowfall has caused a lot of snow to accumulate
on many roofs, and this may pose a concern where the snow has
drifted, and in some spots can be several feet deep. If the snow
accumulation on a roof is in excess of building design it can pose
a hazard and buildings can become vulnerable to structural
failure and possible collapse.
To give some more perspective, a total of 47.4 inches of snow has
been observed at Caribou so far this January, which is the most
ever observed during the month of January since weather records
began in 1939. The old January record of 44.5 inches was
established in January 1994.
This January now ranks as the 5th snowiest month ever at Caribou.
Here are the top 5:
1. 59.9 inches, December 1972
2. 54.5 inches, December 2007
3. 49.4 inches, December 1954
4. 47.7 inches February 2008
5. 47.4 inches, January 2019*
* Through January 22, 2019.
Through January 22, 2019, a seasonal total of 99.2 inches of snow
has been observed this winter. This surpasses the previous record
of 96.2 inches during the winter of 2007-2008 (through January
22, 2008). The winter of 2007-2008 ended up being the snowiest on
record at Caribou with a total of 197.8 inches, and the heavy snow
that winter was one factor that combined with heavy rains and warm
up in April that caused severe flooding in parts of Aroostook and
Piscataquis Counties. While it is still too soon to say that the
snowfall will necessarily lead to flooding in the spring, we will
continue to closely monitor the situation.
Oh how nice, GFS showing -32F for Chicago ORD nd -33F for MDW with a couple -34F's around and thus blowing our all time coldest on record out of the water..... Nothing to see here. LOL
This is just absurd a high of -21F That can't happen.
So, will Chicago finally have a cold blast that lives up to its cold fame? It's funny, because i wrote this not long ago, and suddenly...bump! the Day has come!
Quote:
Originally Posted by marlaver
When i saw Chicago's climate box for the very first time, it surprised me a lot that for a city located in the brutal cold midwest the record low there (Midway) was "only" -32ºC.
And going by that table, there were five years in the last 20 were it even didn't reach -20ºC and it reached -23ºC only in six years of the same period. Like i said, i find it surprisingly high for such a cold labeled city. To make a comparison, some unofficial stations of the much more oceanic Patagonia reached -30ºC with even a -37ºC reading during the same time span.
Watch the "white balls". The core of the First one stays over Ontario and swings into Quebec but doesnt go south past border. Will get cold of course but watch the core.
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