weatherwiz

I have great interest in the idea of Hadley Cell expansion and would love to do some research on it. I'm just super limited with time and I really wish I knew how to code/program...it would make life so much easier. ENSO seems to be so popular because it's easy to draw a connection or correlation. Here is a La Nina winter and here is the [insert temperature, precipitation, H5 anomaly] map. The problem I think too is everything gets averaged. For example, grouping of the seasonal months together. I mean I guess if you're looking for average that's what you want to do...but how much value do you really get from that? What is the true value. it doesn't tell you anything about pattern changes or small-scale perturbations which are actually MORE important. Here's an example...I've attached two images. They each show DJF temperature anomalies ( used 1951-2010 average to account for recent warming) for each La Nina episode. At the bottom of the second image is the "average" of all these episodes. As you can see, just assessing all episodes averaged together really tells you nothing when assessing each episode on an individual basis. What you could decipher I suppose is you're more than likely to feature abve-average temps in the east, below in the west...but as you can see by what would be a large standard deviation...the spread on that is huge.

We've been seeing some pretty strong shortwaves traversing the U.S./Canadian border as of late and that looks to continue moving through the remainder of the month. Definitely should see some shots of cooler air...almost looks like a cross-polar type flow?

Completely agreed with your thoughts/assessments regarding seasonal outlooks. I know I've mentioned this a million times but there is jut way too much emphasis placed on ENSO and seasonal outlooks...way too much. At the end of the day, the sample set of ENSO events and how a season responds is just way too small. Now...this doesn't go to say ENSO state or ENSO evolution should not be considered or addressed...it most absolutely should be, however, it should not get the weight it gets. Obviously as sample size increases and we have more data/results to work with knowledge increases and we adjust based on results. With the small sample size this leads to a very large standard deviation. Long story short...there are going to be many different types of outcomes from various ENSO episodes we have never encountered b/c of the small sample set/large standard deviation. For example, remember for so many years some said we can't get KU's during La Nina's...and then we got like 3 of them in the span of a few weeks lol. Your last sentence there really ties everything together and explains it very well. There are just so many factors that we need to consider and even factors which there is very little research on. I also wonder how much attention this (NH summer) strong PV will get in seasonal outlooks. The PV is MEANT to strengthen as we move towards the NH winter but it's various processes which disrupt this strengthening. Does having an unseasonably strong PV leading into the winter favor a stronger PV which is more difficult to disrupt? Also, look at how much smoke has been emitted into the troposphere and I'm sure some has gotten into the stratosphere...just think of the volume. This most certainly has to alter atmospheric composition and maybe alter circulations, etc.

Another tropical system strengthening before landfall...shocker

It’s actually cool out. Like cool cool. B/c it’s so warm it feels cool but if it wasn’t so warm this would be really cool

Getting bit by mosquitos now crap

The issues seems to be we don’t get sharp enough troughs/short waves to advect here. The core of the jet is well north and west so any EML’s follow that trajectory. The Bermuda high is so strong and eventually the cold front loses its characteristics and becomes weak. We do best when a warm front is lifting north and there is a cyclone go into our northwest with a cold front sliding through and a mid level flow (as long as shear is strong) and coming from the northwest to help with EML advection

No mosquitos here been outside since 1245

That’s how it goes. We very rarely, ever end a heat wave with big severe

Imagine if the front stalls and just washes out and we 90’s/75 all week

I think it stalled

My roommate from school and one of my best friends got a freelance job at WTNH!

Special times

It’s draped right over ALB now. It’s passed Utica

eastern NY…also indicated by sfc obs.

Had some torrential rain in Bethel. Front just west of CT. May see this batch intensify a bit as it moves east through the morning

I've worked plenty outside in heat/humidity. Certainly not construction but I just drank plenty of water, worked on controlling my breathing, and I embraced the heat/humidity.

Most people do. Obviously most people hate the high heat/humidity but most people love warm to hot. Cold does absolutely no good to anyone. And I hate the phrase "You can always put clothes on but you can only take off so much"...that is one of the most ridiculous and outlandish phrases in existence. If people weren't babies and ran to A/C everything they felt a little warm maybe they could handle a little heat. We are warm blooded...we are designed to handle warm/hot weather.

They must be melting. they could apply to play Frosty the Snowman if it ever becomes a musical. Those who don't believe

90's into October? Those who uninstalled have a long, long way to go for prolonged relief.

That's maybe like 3-4 miles (if that) from where I live. Crazy how winds were meh for me. Was legit just outside the edge of this core

We get more severe than they do now

I just thought of something...if the plates are shifting maybe atmospheric stuff is too so at some point in the future we'll get EML's on a daily basis. Probably thousands of years away. Maybe I'll get my head frozen and when they can figure out how to bring the dead back they can thaw me and I'll be around for it.

I want 96/78 under a 8.5 C/Km mid-level lapse rate with a 65 knot MLJ tickling us as it arrives overhead with a shortwave so strong it even lifts the lids off of the pots of boiling water