Saturday, March 30, 2024

Eclipse in a snowstorm

 This is a fun battle - fantasy vs. physics for the long-term forecast of the eclipse.  The fantasy is invoking cold air in Asia, and physics invokes the fact that the Arctic is deflating like a stuck balloon.


The Pacific plumes are stuck in the same pattern we have had for weeks.  This new one hitting Alaska looks like it could set up a clipper.


The Arctic looks like a shrivelled prune, but we saw it come back last week.


All the Arctic air is pouring near the UK, which is saved from freezing by a weird plume eddy from Africa.

If you want to make a fortune selling phoney eclipse glasses on the street, you want our standard Spring pattern of plumes breaking over the Rockies.  That gives us a nice dry Spring.  Not going to happen.

Very difficult to come up with art for this.


The huge snowstorm comes on rapidly, causing people to run and drop their glasses....


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