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I'm sitting in the NW corner of a Winter Storm Warning. I doubt it will compare to what the poor people on the east coast will face in a couple days. Just starting to snow at 11:30 cdt.
Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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Originally Posted by muslim12
The west , especially southwest, is due some cold. Yall always avoid any serious cold anomalies... seems yall are only part of country left that hasn't seen deep cold anomalies in years (monthly average). Correct me if I'm wrong but that's just my observation over past few years, and no last January doesn't count, was not anything special for yall I don't think.
We don't see the positive OR negative anomalies as places east of the Rockies do. Because we have different sources for our air masses. Cold air masses sink, and therefore can't cross truly high mountains, like the Rockies. The entire Arctic Ocean is EAST of the Continental Divide. Where out west, our cold comes from the Gulf of Alaska, which is warmer than the Arctic.
Conversely, our source of warm air is also generally from the Pacific, where the source of warm air in the east is the Gulf Of Mexico and the tropical Atlantic. Water temps are much higher in the GOMEX and Atlantic than in the Pacific, which is why our positive anomalies aren't as high either.
Last edited by FirebirdCamaro1220; 03-12-2017 at 12:23 PM..
19 and sunny a dew of -1. Feels quite nice in the sun, and I was out in shorts and a sweatshirt. It went down to just 12 this morning and yesterday so this is a less severe cold snap than last week.
Now 81°F/27.2°C here, and only noon. Already 3°F/1.6°C above our normal high
But the high in Phoenix, Az is not 24.9°C/76.9F?
27.2°C would be 2.3° above the entire March average and it's only the 1st half of March.
I am seeing that all of next days have predicted highs in Phoenix in the 32-36°C. Wooow! It can be one of the warmest March months recorded there?
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