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No Rain
It’s been a long time since things seemed so dry outside. And the current extended range forecasts keep thing dry for us over the next two weeks!
Yes, there will be two cold fronts moving through this week. The first one will result in a familiar pattern of having any rain shear off to the far north and west of the city—
Another cold front moves through Saturday. The models had been forecasting some light showers for us, but those have all but disappeared in the forecast—
I’m still playing with the highly experimental AI-Machine Learning version of the GFS. It still seems to show the first chance of any substantial rain here is November 3rd!
All I can say is “Wow”.
Any idea why we’re in such a dry cycle?
The solar cycle has been implicated with drought conditions. This is looking reminiscent of the years 2000-2001 here in Philadelphia. Specifically a https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-9428-7_13
Also look up Bidecadal Drought Rhythm on Google and Google scholar and the Hale Solar Cycle Drought