Get ur cubs ready east guys
Valentines Day Snowstorm!
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
SOME OF YOU NEXT WEEK MAYBE CUDDLED UP NEXT TO A WARM FIRE WITH THE SNOW FALLING OUTSIDE....
The pattern change coming up is one that will produce an active southern jet stream with a northern branch that will continue to supply cold air. I know reading your e-mails that there is a lot of doubt as to whether the storm comes with snow, or just rain, but look at what is going on. This is really the first time this winter when we have seen a pattern yielding high pressure systems to the north of storms instead of highs that cascade out to sea and produce southerly winds ahead of a storm.
The role of a high to the north of the storm is to 1. bring cold air into the storm, and 2. add additional spin into the storm. It's the same process that we look for in hurricane development in the Gulf of mexico or along the Southeast coast, where the high pressure system to the north adds spin into an old frontal boundary and hurricane develops. In the old days of Meteorology, we always looked for the banana high over a storm. That's where the high pressure system is in the shape of a banana north fo west of the storm. Essentially, the high wraps around the storm. In the video I show you examples of that type of high pressure systems over the storm next week.
I liek what I am seeing in the overall pattern and while a lot of you have been snow starved, and others have been enjoying the lack of snow, we could be going into a pattern that may yield a lot of snow for some.
In the case of next week, the storm develops in the South and heads toward the mid-Atlantic where it is shown on the models to bomb out. I am not sure if this is going to be the Big Dadday yet, and I certainly don't want to jinx it..but I do see a lot of potential...
sounds like we'll need the blowers!
