Arctic is cooking up some cold

 The Arctic Ice Machine is generating some nice ice-cold air with the stationary vortex.  

All the gates are shut by ocean plumes, and that just leaves poor old Canada as the flow point.  We have that nice Pacific air flowing over us, and then an Arctic blob will come behind it.  

In the Atlantic, the media is still trying to 'Raise the Dead Parrot' of hurricanes.  They really need something exciting.  The Chinese build too well to have typhoon excitement.  Here, we see an excellent example of the 3-dimensionality of the atmosphere.  The lower winds are smooth as glass, with no curl.  The upper atmosphere shows a hurricane forming.  However, this sucker will be blown away by the Arctic or Pacific air, just like the last one.  There is no heat energy in the Atlantic belt.

Way over in 'Typhoon Land' we have perfect harmony between the upper and lower atmosphere.

ps but they still have to flog the dead horse.

This is actually lifting me out of the very gloomy weather.

ps  within a few hours, a full-channel spill is coming down the slot

Just showing on the far edges of the weather forecast.  The forecast is an under-estimate, and we will have the fun of seeing it constantly get colder at night.