Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Physics Weather - Plume action changes

 


The weather people called that the cold air is moving east.  It always does that.  Looks like the pinwheel action is over.  That gave us a warm early winter last year, but it doesn't look well-established this year.

A Pacific plume is hitting Alaska.  That always gives us a cold clipper, which is a cold-air peanut butter on top of warm bread.  We get the cold, and then snow.  The Great Lakes are still warm which might save Toronto, but Huntsville will get a foot or two.  

When a cold air blob pushes out warm air, there is only a small chance of snow, but it is the worst because the cold stays and the ice becomes salt resistant.  Blah!


I don't know why I do Europe any more.  It's like doing Australia!  It's become a common pattern this winter that this big cold air plume moves east and hits Europe.  The deep penetration of cold is due to a very weak Atlantic heat content, but it should give a few more narrow plumes of warmth.

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The world ocean temps show stronger and stronger cold water incursions into both the Atlantic and Pacific belts.  Once again -- never been see before since sat monitoring started in the 80's.  


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