weatherwiz

Summer doesn't have to mean high heat/humidity though. This past decade has really distorted our perception of summer. There is no denying its been very comfortable from mid-August through now and its been phenomenal but its been very summer like. We're so used to summer meaning 90's and high humidity but that's not really the case.

I mean there will probably be some opportunity for frosts in the climatologically favored places. If we get any instances of high pressure overhead (which there are some hints) we'll certainly get some chilly nights. We're probably going to be looking at some crazy diurnal swings in the upcoming few weeks.

It's definitely a very warm look, those are some serious 850 anomalies, particularly across the northern tier of the country. We'll certainly get some cool shots and some chilly nights mixed in but the overall theme is going to be above-average.

Quite a bit of model uncertainty for the end of the week across the eastern third of the country.

About as much as the patriots offense averaged in the first half

I wish they added more blocks for the number of years you can input. I know with the temp maps on the climate division site you posted they increased the blocks from 20 to 30. I know you mainly focus on ENSO events post 1950 while I was going back to 1900, however, I am beginning to wonder if I should put any weight on forecasts using events prior to 1950. I don't want to abandoned studying patterns of ENSO events prior to 1950 but it is evident as daylight there is a major shift in how ENSO's behave over time...especially after the 1960's/1970's. For example, I stupidly went below-average temps for like the eastern third of the country last winter...but if I eliminated EL NIno events from before 1960 from my list, I probably wouldn't have done that.

I have to send a follow up email to PSL but a few months back the site I was using to make composites compared to the appropriate period stopped generating images. When I initially emailed them they said they were looking into it. This happened just before everything happened with the dog and just haven't followed up. I had some new ideas I wanted to try with the breakdowns based on ENSO/strength but have fallen really behind. I wish I either had significantly more time or was smart enough to learn programming and coding...that right there would go a long way in all this. But I wanted to start assessing previous ENSO events and pattern evolution on a weekly basis starting from like mid-Fall. What's becoming very challenging with using ENSO in seasonal forecasting though is, focusing on ONI and SST's alone just aren't cutting it anymore. ENSO events and how they are impacting atmospheric circulations are behaving much differently over the last 20-30 years. Obviously there needs to be some skepticism with that statement because when assessing events prior to 1950 much of the data is re-analysis and derived from ship data and there are huge gaps in data during the 2 world wars. But what I re-started back in the spring was creating a list of ENSO events for each of the following methods ONI ENS-ONI RONI I was then looking into SOI data and assessing the SOI and looking at SOI data for the following methods SOI from the Bureau of Meteorology (Australia) SOI from the University of East Anglia SOI from Long Paddock CPC SOI CPC Equatorial SOI The methods used to calculate the SOI are extremely similar, however, Long Paddock/Australia used a x10 multiplier and Long Paddock also uses a bit longer climo background. I think Long Paddock/Australia's method makes SOI assessment much easier. Then next looking into MEI. What sucks with MEI is v2 only dates to 1979. There is the extended version which dates to like the 1870's but I believe it stopped being updated in the 2000's.

Hope we keep this until November. Anyways, really starting to notice the loss of daylight now. Looked at the clock last night thinking it was like 9:00 and it was only 7:30 lol. At least though we're remaining mild at night. Was outside with shorts until the end of the SNF game...pretty wild for me.

Very much too far out to take it serious, but if you look at that synoptic evolution, that's exactly what you want to see so can't totally discard this one yet.

We may have a shot if that pattern verifies Too bad it will probably be 70's with dews in the 50's

Latent heat from the monster hurricane in the Gulf pumping heights north

I could be off on this but technically the Atlantic does get designations as category 3 or higher are called major hurricanes.

Never thought I’d be outside in shorts wearing a football jersey and being able to watch the game outside. Keep this through November PLEASE

So I just encountered one of those flying spiders. I was outside with the dog and I see this thing floating through the air. It looked somewhat like those white things from flowers but it was definitely parachuting. I followed it until it landed and it started to crawl.

I’m cleaning gutters. Don’t need one jumping on me and knocking me off the ladder

Is this is a funnel weaver web?

There is some sort of creature in the unit on the left. Anyone ever have that happen? Who do you call besides Ghostbusters. A bird once got through the fireplace at my grandparents when I was younger and squirrels get inside my moms (with one dancing in my face when I was drunk in bed) but I’ve never had this…who do you call besides Ghostbusters??

WTF? Where is that? Looks like a wolf spider or a brown recluse or a mixture of the two. Get out of there ASAP.

All that traffic was just because people wanted to see the color of leaves...LMFAO

I'm sure we'll get a pretty potent front at some point during October which will bring the chance for some transition precip up north on the backside of the front. Of course if we are active with any coastal systems could get something light for the elevated interior.

Hard to get snow when its 70's and 80's

Better chance of the Patriots going 17-0, winning the Super Bowl AND the Red Sox to sneak into the playoffs and win the World Series.

They shouldn't run models past 180 hours. Its a waste of resources and with the explosion of social media, just elicits unnecessary hype which spills into the public and creates nothing but chaos.

We need a blowtorch reaction

sucks the timing of the s/w rotating through is so late today