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walking outside and it started raining on me; was so mild outside it didn't feel too cold at first. Forgot to bring a rain jacket, assumed the rain was done. Warm enough you can get rained on comfortably...
Temperature: 73°F, dewpoint 72°F. It's supposed to drop tonight...
The last 20 days have been ridiculous. I'm rooting for anything around seasonal or even only a few degs above normal.
I'm really hoping this isn't where the jet is going to be in the winter (looks like La niña jets but wayyy farther north).
Yeah, it's been brutal for sure. I'm starring at the air mass aloft and it's so sad to look at lately. Normal temps at 5000' is now around 7C for us. Meanwhile it's been 15-20C which is pretty much extreme warm side of the scale for this time of year..
I wish more meteos would mention the "why's" but I think many want you to pay for their services for that kind of info. I know Steve D (NYNJPA Weather) sometimes does but when I was interning for him I was getting free school lessons. He knows his stuff. But you wouldn't get his discussions unless you paid through a membership.
Point is... Something has to be changing in the Pacfic, Arctic, or Atlantic for us to get that Jet to dip down in Eastern U.S. I have a feeling the Southeast ridge is one player just not giving up. Another is maybe the Greenland blocking or lack of? Another would be the configuration of the Jet at the northern Latitudes? Polar Vortex too weak or not south enough? Something has to change and asap! lol
It was all about Nate. If Nate wasn't around we wouldn't of been "as" humid which was extreme. Timing is amazing when you think about patterns and extremes. No cold fronts pushing across to stop all this.
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By October, tropical air masses are generally confined to the Gulf of Mexico, and only the Florida Peninsula tends to see dew points in the 70s with any frequency
As mentioned earlier, humidity levels across the nation tend to decline in October. Storm systems, followed by cold fronts, will usually move across the nation and usher in cooler and drier air from the north and northwest. The warm and humid air will then get pushed into the south.
This past weekend, however, a strong surge of tropical moisture has pushed up into the US mainland, compliments of Hurricane Nate. Nate formed in the tropical waters off the western Caribbean, and quickly moved up through the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf Coast. It's remnants have since moved up into the Ohio Valley and into the northeastern US.
The result is an extraordinary amount of tropical moisture in place across a large area. Since there have been no cold fronts to replace this tropical air mass with cooler and dry air, the tropical moisture has been lingering across the southern and eastern US even after the remnants of Nate have passed by.
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