Well, unless you're talking about sports or politics, the board has seemed rather quiet. So, here's the weather and some other news:
Yesterday/today's cold front ushered in a cool, dry, Canadian air mass that will be our weather focus for the upcoming slew of days. High pressure slides over top of the area on Tuesday which could lead to some frost in low lying areas. That same high pressure system will then park itself northeast of the region giving folks along the coast a chilly, sea-breeze. Temperatures will respond inland to a rather potent system marching through Canada. The Euro has Southern NJ and PA reaching the high 70s to low 80s by Thursday. The GFS members keep a lid on the temps with a possible run at the mid 70s on Thursday. They both seem to have different opinions on how the storm system will pan out in general. The GFS wants to keep the best chances for thunderstorm and/or heavy precip well to the North while the Euro gives us all a fair shot at seeing some storms. I think it will all depend on how the jet stream wants build around this storm. If we are able to get some strong low level jet to develop, there's a decent chance of seeing a frisky line develop in the afternoon on Thursday. Clear it out some what for Friday and knock temperatures down five to ten degrees before the start of the weekend. Late weekend storm on Sunday, then things get interesting as a building ridge in the West meets some rather cold air that will bleed in to start next week.
Other news and this and that:
Former Weather Channel met, Marc Mancuso, has joined the Accuweather dot com team.
Al Roker will be hosting a new morning show on the Weather Channel with meteorologist Stephanie Abrams starting in July (or June, not sure). The two will host from different locations, Roker in New York and Abrams in Atlanta. So there you go NBC, for 3.5 billion smackeroonis you get the Weather Channel and give us more Roker.
NOAA has selected Lockheed Martin out of Pennsylvania to build the new GOES-R satellites that will be launched in 2015. The new 1.09 billion dollar satellites will give forecasters images every 30 seconds instead of every 7 1/2 minutes. Awesome.
After three straight months of slightly above average temperatures for the lower 48, April came in slightly below average.
Yesterday/today's cold front ushered in a cool, dry, Canadian air mass that will be our weather focus for the upcoming slew of days. High pressure slides over top of the area on Tuesday which could lead to some frost in low lying areas. That same high pressure system will then park itself northeast of the region giving folks along the coast a chilly, sea-breeze. Temperatures will respond inland to a rather potent system marching through Canada. The Euro has Southern NJ and PA reaching the high 70s to low 80s by Thursday. The GFS members keep a lid on the temps with a possible run at the mid 70s on Thursday. They both seem to have different opinions on how the storm system will pan out in general. The GFS wants to keep the best chances for thunderstorm and/or heavy precip well to the North while the Euro gives us all a fair shot at seeing some storms. I think it will all depend on how the jet stream wants build around this storm. If we are able to get some strong low level jet to develop, there's a decent chance of seeing a frisky line develop in the afternoon on Thursday. Clear it out some what for Friday and knock temperatures down five to ten degrees before the start of the weekend. Late weekend storm on Sunday, then things get interesting as a building ridge in the West meets some rather cold air that will bleed in to start next week.
Other news and this and that:
Former Weather Channel met, Marc Mancuso, has joined the Accuweather dot com team.
Al Roker will be hosting a new morning show on the Weather Channel with meteorologist Stephanie Abrams starting in July (or June, not sure). The two will host from different locations, Roker in New York and Abrams in Atlanta. So there you go NBC, for 3.5 billion smackeroonis you get the Weather Channel and give us more Roker.
NOAA has selected Lockheed Martin out of Pennsylvania to build the new GOES-R satellites that will be launched in 2015. The new 1.09 billion dollar satellites will give forecasters images every 30 seconds instead of every 7 1/2 minutes. Awesome.
After three straight months of slightly above average temperatures for the lower 48, April came in slightly below average.
