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Another warm day today as temps climb to around 60 but still a few degrees shy of any record. Tomorrow temps will start off around 60 but fall into the 40s during the afternoon as a front comes through. Back closer to normal for the weekend. Normal high this weekend is around 40 and temps will primarily be in the upper 30s to lower 40s this weekend and the first half of next week.
As usual, 0Z and 6Z GFS have little in the way of arctic air, a few "glancing blows" north of the Ohio River. Amazing how the Pacific pattern can screw up the entire winter in a large-scale way for most of the US.
The December from Hell continues. Has a moderate risk EVER been issued this far north in December? Much of the moderate risk area still has snow cover. Is this the end of days?
Not only that, there's an extreme or critical fire risk over most of Kansas... on December 15?
Very little, -PNA at least giving the West some beneficial moisture, but until it flips sign to positive, all bets of any sustained arctic air lasting longer than a few days in the East are off the table for now.
Not surprising, they have little in common with the actual Midwest in terms of climate, but far more in common with the semi-arid sparsely populated interior western US. It could be an extreme or exceptional drought setup for next year, for the south-central Great Plains, similar to the 1930's Dust Bowl years.
Not surprising, they have little in common with the actual Midwest in terms of climate, but far more in common with the semi-arid sparsely populated interior western US. It could be an extreme or exceptional drought setup for next year, for the south-central Great Plains, similar to the 1930's Dust Bowl years.
Not surprising? It's the first ever extremely critical fire weather outlook for that part of the world during December in NWSSPC history.
Thank goodness, we need their crops.
Meanwhile, much to my delight; salt trucks remain idle here.
Hope it stays that way, much easier to keep cars clean when it rains instead.
And wow, first moderate risk of tornadoes in Iowa/MN for the month of December...ever.
Last edited by chicagogeorge; 12-15-2021 at 10:25 AM..
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