Spring 2016 thread (Northern Hemisphere) (hot, warm, average, 2015)

[Bottletree]

Thunderstorm outside

[chicagogeorge]

Warm, increasingly humid week to fuel thunderstorms | Chicago Weather Center: Skilling's Forecast and Chicago Severe Weather Alerts

With temps and dew points creeping up, I'm going to turn on the AC for the first time this year....

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by Donar

Wow snow Northern California is indeed impressive even though it's presumably at a higher elevation!

reports 13 inches of snow at Kingvale in California.


Here was why.. Jet Stream buckling in the West as had all past winter. Low pressure around.





Soda Springs, California





Snowed down to 4300 feet in this area of California





Cedar Pass, California





Snowfall forecast couple days ago to get an idea where the heaviest precip for snow was





Even in Oregon. Late Season Snow





Can't forget Montana as well. Must be some pretty sights going on.

[Cambium]

Current Jet Stream and Upper Flow


Big dip in the West. The Dip in the East is being pushed and taken over.


If you look at the clouds above 12,000 feet this is the direction it will be moving today.


Looks like Chicago will be warmish based on this alone. I saw GFS showed a heat wave for the south 90s multiple days in a row. Next week again

[chicagogeorge]

^^

That's good. More mountain snow means more water out west.

I see a couple of 87F/31C in the western suburbs here.





NYC/New Jersey also warm Wednesday

[Cambium]

Last week of May & Meteorological Spring, what goes down must come up for somewhere else. Summer type pattern East of the Rockies




Cool, Showery, Cloudy, Snowy in the West.

[Cambium]

Poor DC.. raining this morning and overcast. Check out which way the moisture is moving

National Weather Service Wakefield VA
443 AM EDT MON MAY 23 2016


Current water vapor imagery shows an upper low spinning
over the Mid-Atlantic region early this morning, which per GEFS/SREF
is around -2 st dev at 500mb.


A potent vort max associated with the
low is producing areas of rain and drizzle from the Ern Shore into
central VA. Temperatures are generally in the mid 50s with nearly
saturated conditions at the surface.


The main area of forcing is
expected to gradually sink sewd through the morning hours, with the
rain and drizzle shifting into s-central/se VA/ne NC through the
morning hours.

[chicagogeorge]

https://twitter.com/GenscapeWx/statu...17027487735808

[chicagogeorge]

https://twitter.com/NWSChicago/statu...52571324305409

[Cambium]

Tropical System around Memorial Day. You heard it here first. lol.


7 days away.


Weak.. hits South Carolina and just deteriorates.


Will this be an active Atlantic season?
Will we be getting more coastal storms? (We already had 2 past 5 days!)
We shall see.