Winter 2016 Resumes Late Next Week

Winter 2016 Resumes Late Next Week
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Winter 2016 has been remarkable in so many ways as we have pointed out in prior posts. It’s not always about snow. We had an all time unprecedented record warm December with numerous daily records broken during the month. The month temperature average was a whopping 12 degrees above normal. Then in late December we had an unprecedented warming in the Arctic regions that broke down the polar vortex and flipped the pattern. That pattern flip put us in a highly volatile state. We saw cold shots and warm bursts that took temperatures from single digits to 60s in a short time. Then as the pattern evolved we descended into what turned into an almost perfect replay of the Blizzard of 96 with the Blizzard of 2016. That volatility is far from over.

We are going into another pattern realignment that will peak on Wednesday of next week with a big storm heading for the Great Lakes. Don’t be surprised if temperatures hit the 60s for a brief time when that storm’s cold front approaches us with a soaking rain here. Once that is done, the realignment and the volatility continues.

Winter 2016 Resumes Late Next Week Arctic Warming

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Another super strong warming event is underway in the Arctic. It is similar in magnitude to the warm up that we saw there in mid December. What I am showing you is the warmup as it is reflected in suface temperatures but the important thing is that the warm up extends all the way to the highest levels of the atmosphere. Changes at the highest level take about 2 weeks to play out. The warmup began last week so we are now entering the second week. We should see results from this beginning later next week once the Great Lakes storm is done.

Winter 2016 Resumes Late Next Week Polar Vortex In The Stratosphere

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This upper air map is showing the level above where planes fly. We are talking way up. The map is for late next week. The setup shows what is called cross polar flow. That means the air is coming from the coldest parts of the Arctic and Siberia southward into the United States and into the east. Now there are questions here regarding how long it lasts but I would suspect that it will be temporary in terms of the extreme. This has been the signature this winter of volatility back and forth. It is from that volatility that you get storms. In terms of specifics there is no way to know at this point.

Winter 2016 Resumes Late Next Week Upper Air Jet Stream Pattern

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If this pattern looks familar it is the same pattern the long range foresaw after the last warming event. We have a split flow with a polar vortex in Eastern Canada feeding in cold air and we have an active subtropical jet feeding in system after system into the west. Whether there will be another major snowstorm threat will depend on so many other factors that we cannot see until we get into the short range. But what we can say at this point is the pattern going forward in February is rhyming with the pattern going into January. If we wind up with another snowstorm threat down the road, it should not come as a surprise.

 

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