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    Mon, 22 Feb 2010

    Philadelphia Weather Outlook- Mon PM
    The GFS model is showing snow for late Thursday into Friday morning. This is an unusual system and exact amounts are very uncertain. See my earlier note below:

    A very interesting weather week, as a deep low pressure system is expected to develop over New England on Thursday through Saturday. An interaction between an upper low and a surface low will cause this system to undergo explosive cyclogenesis and retrograde from east to west as the two lows become vertically stacked and the upper trough becomes negatively tilted. The models have been consistent with this developing feature but exact location remains unclear.

    As a result, very cold temperatures will return to our area. Very windy conditions will also develop during the same period. Depending on how far south and west this storm retrogrades and how large it becomes, we will either have snow showers or accumulating snow. Stay tuned.


    Solar Climate Discussion (Updated 2/6): This past July and August
    (see post here) (and here), I suggested that this winter would be unusually cold due to a prolonged lull in solar activity. The sun is beginning to come out of a solar minimum, and there has finally been the long expected increase in solar activity signaling the real beginning of Solar Cycle 24. There are several sunspot areas, but the solar flux still hasn't taken off. It's still early in the cycle. Total Solar Irradiance continues to be about 1 watt/m2 lower than it was during the peak of the last solar cycle, Solar Cycle 23, in April 2000.

    As of early February, it looks like the solar cycle is providing the predicted colder than normal temperatures and the El Nino is providing the potent moisture rich southern jet stream. Continue to expect colder than normal temperatures into the spring.

    posted: Feb 22 2010 at 7:30 pm

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    Philadelphia Weather Outlook- Mon AM
    A very interesting weather week, as a deep low pressure system is expected to develop over New England on Thursday through Saturday. An interaction between an upper low and a surface low will cause this system to undergo explosive cyclogenesis and retrograde from east to west as the two lows become vertically stacked and the upper trough becomes negatively tilted. The models have been consistent with this developing feature but exact location remains unclear.

    As a result, very cold temperatures will return to our area. Very windy conditions will also develop during the same period. Depending on how far south and west this storm retrogrades and how large it becomes, we will either have snow showers or accumulating snow. Stay tuned.


    Solar Climate Discussion (Updated 2/6): This past July and August
    (see post here) (and here), I suggested that this winter would be unusually cold due to a prolonged lull in solar activity. The sun is beginning to come out of a solar minimum, and there has finally been the long expected increase in solar activity signaling the real beginning of Solar Cycle 24. There are several sunspot areas, but the solar flux still hasn't taken off. It's still early in the cycle. Total Solar Irradiance continues to be about 1 watt/m2 lower than it was during the peak of the last solar cycle, Solar Cycle 23, in April 2000.

    As of early February, it looks like the solar cycle is providing the predicted colder than normal temperatures and the El Nino is providing the potent moisture rich southern jet stream. Continue to expect colder than normal temperatures into the spring.

    posted: Feb 22 2010 at 7:45 am

    [/weather/feb10] permanent link



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