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Last Updated: 3:38 AM GMT on July 14, 2009
— Last Comment: 12:22 PM GMT on June 15, 2009
Well I guess 3 hot summers in a row was just too good to be true. I'm talking about 05,06, and 07 of course. With the exception of one week in early June this summer has been well below normal. This morning on my way to work my thermometer measure 37 degrees!! While tomarrow morning is supposed to be about the same.
I created some temperature anomaly charts using http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/data/composites/day/http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/data/composites/day/ Noaa's PSD ESRL they all show the great lakes, northeast and most of southeastern and north central Canada being 2 to 3 degree Celsius below normal. Not sure off hand what that equates to in F but somewhere in the range of 3 to 6 degrees below average. In fact Evey months since last winter has been at least slightly below normal for this region. Most of the heat seems to be staying locked up in the western US. With persistent troughs moving in from the northern rockies and deepening as they rotate under persistent upper level low pressure over the Eastern half of Canada. Each time the heat tries to come at us from the great Plains another front puts the smack down on it in a few days. Uhhgg meting sickening!!! A lot is changing in the global weather patterns recently, I know one reason this is happening all though not the only reason, is a negative plunge in the arctic oscillation for the past two months. The polar upper level lows are being displaced by higher pressure southward from the north pole region, hence the persistent cold and upper troughs in eastern and northern Canada. There are some other factors that may affect the rest of the summer such as entrance into a week El Nino state in the Ocean Atmosphere. The summer effects of El nino's in this region are very inconsistent and hard to pin down what will happen, off course if it were to become a major El Nino the winter would likely be milder, but doesn't look like it at this point. The last factor to talk about is the transition into a cold phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation over the last year or two. El Nino's tend to be milder and northern North america tends to be colder. Well I can't wait to see what happens in August, if its not a warm one I don't think my poor garden gonna produce much this year. Oh and PS look for a good chance of thunderstorms overnight tomorrow associated with another cold front and cold trough moving in to Kill our warm weather.
I stated in my last blog it would be useless to start planting a garden untill at least after the 9th of June. Well the persistant Northwest to north flow aloft and the pool of below normal temps over the eastern half of Canada has all changed. As you might remember the summer of 08 was not very warm with only a hand full of days in the 80's that was because of a similar pattern. So warmth is here to stay for the next two weeks at lest the question is will this patt...
Hello folks I havn't blogged on here in over a yearand my weather station is in complete disrepare, this might have something to do with getting married and gaining a wife step daughter, my own 4 month old baby girl...bussy bussy bussy with lifes changes. However I still love weather and try and study it everyday.It seems to me from looking at the Norhtern Hemisphere sea ice records and record cold U.P. winter of 08-09 that global warming has not only leveled off bu...
Finally got all my instruments up and running, this time located a few miles southeast of my old Iron River station. Its sits at the foothills of Caspian hill at an elevation of 1540 feet.The accuracy should be very good except for wind speed and direction from the west due to the hilly terrain.Also of note there are now two stations in the Iron River area always nice to compare my reading to a nearby station.
Nothing much has changed in the overall weather pattern since my last blog. uggggghh. Things have gotten not at cold obviously with the ever strengthening sun angle, but things continue to stay average to below average.The blocking over the arctic continues unabated. Things will try and warm over the next 5 days but models now agree that a very strong ridge will develop just of the western USA coast and punch into British Columbia. As this happens the jet and storm ...
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