The 32 degrees line is running from the Grand Canyon to Raton, New Mexico to St. Louis, to Columbus, Ohio to Reading, Pennsylvania at this time.
Anywhere there is moisture, there is probably some ice. We have largely dodged the bullet right here. We were in an area predicted to receive a total of between one-half and an inch of total ice accumulation. We received almost nothing but drizzle until overnight. We awoke to just enough ice to cover the trees. Cedar trees are shaped like tepees. We are currently at 33 and will be warming to a high of 40 this afternoon. Tomorrow is supposed to be up to 52. Those a bit further north have not been so fortunate. We are very thankful for the breezes from the Gulf of Mexico being a bit stronger than had been predicted. This area is where those breezes come to die. Similarly the Canadian blasts rushing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies and eastward across the plains also come here to die. Our tendency to have large temperature swings depends entirely on which weather system is stronger at any given moment. In Oklahoma and Missouri they refer to this as the I-44 effect.
What are the dominant forces controlling the weather where you live?
Holy Cow, post: 409245, member: 50 wrote: What are the dominant forces controlling the weather where you live?
The Pacific Ocean and the Cascade Mountains...
It's going to be a beautiful day here in the Pacific Northwest; I think i will try to get some surveying done...:cool::totalstation::stakeout:
Holy Cow, post: 409245, member: 50 wrote: What are the dominant forces controlling the weather where you live?
The Trilateral Commission, the UN, and the attendees at the Bohemian Grove and Davos. AMMO UP
I miss TDD 🙂
The Great Lakes.
James Fleming, post: 409249, member: 136 wrote: The Trilateral Commission, the UN, and the attendees at the Bohemian Grove and Davos. AMMO UP
I miss TDD 🙂
I moved to NW Ark in the late 70s. I didn't watch (or own)TV in the 70s, mostly listened to the radio. New Orleans had great radio but in NW Ark, not so. Mostly C&W and bad pop. One night, I finally found a call-in show from Springfield Mo on a low budget station which didn't have time delay capabilities or someone who didn't know how to operate them.The host was a HS teacher so there were numerous prank calls from HS students which were quite entertaining. Sometimes someone would just call and cuss an expletive and hang up, so the host would apologize to
audience. When there was a blizzard of these type of disruptions, the host would switch to music.
But when there wasn't major disruptions, the call ins were entertaining too. Mostly good ole boys. Farmers who had no tv reception or didn't care for tv programs when there were such important events to be discussed on the radio.
My favorite listening topics were discussions about converting to the metric system. The government and banks were going to steal land by the conversion. Endless logical fallacies to support their point. Even the mathematical proof.
Now for the weather.
Another very popular topic was the Russkies etc were controlling the weather by bending the jet stream with their massive weather machine.
Holy Cow, post: 409245, member: 50 wrote: ..In Oklahoma and Missouri they refer to this as the I-44 effect. What are the dominant forces controlling the weather where you live?
As always, depends on the contributing factors. I have observed the "I-44 effect" for years. While not an exact line, you can trace the 1000'-1200' msl line across Oklahoma from sw to ne and it mimicks the I-44 corridor somewhat. But the winds play a factor also. The "NW" part of OK is flat high prairie. The "SE" is lower cross-timbers with a lot of minor drainage and the elevation drops to about 600' msl in the SE cor of the State. With thick and stable arctic air this natural stratification of elevations plays a key role, especially when temps hover between 25F and 35F.
But the winds aloft play a far greater role. If the Jet Stream is overhead or south of OK, we get "Nebraska" weather. If the Jet is north of us, it feels like Texas.
And of course in May and June the I-35 corridor is the quintessential "convergence" line where thick north-bound gulf moisture meets cooler air masses from the west or northwest....usually about 4 to 6 pm in the evening. The results are so predictable nowadays the local channels each have a dozen storm chasing crews...with tornadoes painted on the sides of their hail-pocked SUVs.
My dominant "controlling" factor for my weather is the thermostat in the hallway...;)
Winter: polar fronts. Some
Winters, it is very cyclical. Easy to expect cold, rainy or warm weather but there can be anomalies some years.
Summer: they say that one can give the daily forecast from June through Sept here with one basic forecast. Hot Humid with chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Hi and lo pressure systems in the Gulf.
Hurricane season from Aug-Sept.
Tropical waves that form off the Cape Verde Islands of West Africa and move to the Caribbean. What forms the waves? I would suspect warm winds from the Sahara Desert.
For most of the week Kansas City has been sitting in the middle of all that winter storm.
It must be a mess because they delayed the playoff game from 12pm till 7pm.
That rarely happens.
Cold fronts off of the Pacific Ocean bring our weather. Storms out of the Gulf of Alaska are relatively cold and bring the best skiing snow but the tropical atmospheric rivers bring lots of rain and Sierra cement snow if you get high enough.
Evidently Dallas as we seem to have what they had 2 days ago.
