Typhoon Tip

About the only way it matters is having the higher sun angle lazing away at the back of one's neck and shoulders. Yeah...if it's 95/70 on June 21, the sun will add more, but in terms of high temperature... the modulation isn't as much as popular guess might have it. It does account for some... but 25 C at 850 mb, well mixed, has to obey the adiabatic condition - it's just that simple.

Yeah, no ..I've never been a fan of the 'daily sun' argument. It's like the ground is too warm? sort of antithesis to that silliness. But I have obsevered 82-85 F in 3 Februaries now in the last 7 years, right here imby. I mean, if the 850 mb is mixable, and it's 25F up there, it'll be in the 80s on Xmas

Both Orchard Field and Midway airports are 99/ 77 and 79 respectively. That's a HI of 118 ! On August 24 ... wow

oh I see. helps to go back some ...heh

is that what you're doing these days for work?

This one's sea level at D7 ... Granted up there at 55 N but I'm pretty sure that's outlandish even for them on August 31.

Ha ha

Mm with the sun starting to slope and the AO flipping into the positive mode melt would traditional slow fwiw

well, to be clear. The hurricane numbers 'matches' the memory pretty well. we were speaking about the increased - apparently so ... - of sub category TCs to affect the upper MA/NE regions. this latter aspects is the point of interest

This statistical overview has to do with at or > hurricane declarations? Earlier/recently in this thread there was discussion elucidating that while hurricane "drought" is noted, the advent of TC with lesser intensity may have actually improved over recent decades - since ~ 2000. This was speculation, mind you - no declaration is being made. It's more of a curiosity where it seems so, and if so ... why. Less hurricane in lieu of > frequency of forgettables. Interesting if the number bear that out.

Fwiw, the solar activity does not, however... just sayn'

I'm beginning to suspect we've been getting some 'harmonic' sort of feedback between the heat genesis and the ridging. The warm Atlantic SSTs are contributing to positive node in the N. Atl basin ... while the unique heat potential of the N/A continent W of 90...100W is servicing helping to anchor that aspect. The nadir between is mathematic Intense thermal ridging adds by driving an intense thermal wind vector that when acted on by the C-force, it bends anticyclonic which is the mechanical constructive interference. In a sloppy sense ... the 'ridge protects itself' It may help explain why our 'warm than normal' summers over the last decade(s) has been ballast in the overnight lows/DP contribution to elevating matters rather than stellar highs. As well as the transfixing nature of summers incapable of bringing the goods east other than transience.

it was never going to be west - not with the modeled hemispheric circulation mode. no way. every TC, the models will put out a cycle or two at D6 to 8 lead whence they attempt to violate geophysical mathematics. lol ...Annnd summarily, dopamine drips.

Narragansett does pretty well with that

Next !

Hugo was actually a heart breaker for cane enthusiasts ( of the 'totally responsible mentality' ilk lol ..). I mean, it was a long ... looooong ass tracker that made the entire distance along a clad climo trajectory for ECer's of lore. Even passing within 60 naut miles N of PR... You know? there's this ISE, which is both cumulative for seasons, and for individual TC life. Integrated Storm Energy. They should one like ISD, integrate storm dildo. ... it's basically proportional to "the length" of time and space the given system justly spends within the realm of reach and hope without reach-around

Yeah... farmer John's recollection here ... We've observed a lot in the way of decaying TCs that have lifted along the EC - in fact, that sub-classed traffic seems to have increased? "Gloria" in 1986 was the last MDR long track text book express, but it left something on the table actually because between passing the latitude of Cape May NJ and landfall along L.I. it dropped all the way to Cat 1. Kind of a rapid weakener. "Bob" in '91 was a home grown ... but with it 'hooking' right so much it wasn't a higher population impactor. What I think is interesting is that while it is likely more true than not, we've had more favorable set ups in recent decade(s), we have also seen an increased number/frequency of those sub- Cat 1 type cyclones. It's interesting what/why for this latter increase - as its own story. But otherwise ..we should consider Hugo ... Irene ... Sandy, which 'sort of' did but did not happen to key hole the right parabolic track. I don't even know if Sandy was an MDR ...but for brevity's sake. Hugo missed entirely, but hit the EC nonetheless. Irene was mangled by land too much; got too far west. It was also moving rather slow compared to 'express climo'. If that had been more east of its verification, I'm not sure that slow rate of ascension would have survived the colder shelf waters S of L.i., anyway. At the end of the day, it seems we've seen increased frequency of favorable synoptics, without a big pig.

Plus ( no pun intended ...) the curve is not linear? you know that, but from what I sense, there is a kind of lingering air - if not assumption - of linearity to this thing, in a systemic change that is clearly become more logarithmic - or has been exposed to be so at this end of the curve compared to the progress of CC between 1980 and 2000... It's as though saying one thing, but not truly in sync with it. Even in the ambit of higher climate sciences and the ethical leaders ( as few as they are in this latter group), there's a lapse in projecting the upward parabolic trajectory. All the impacts so far registered that are either in or have been through attribution science, were predicted to occur later than they materialized. There are also new impacts that were not anticipated by the tech and purposes, altogether. Such as the marine heat wave phenomenon. The impacts on the mid latitude circulation modes during winters...etc...

While the higher continental heat is trapped in the west, the end of this Euro run looks like an evolving steam bath along the EC all the way up. You have heights rising/bulging back NW aft of a tropical cyclone escaping into the N Atlantic. That's gotta be soup

Yeah... I don't like the expression, but not because I loathe summer. I don't like it because it's pointless - I blame myself, too... Because I remember using that expression back in like 2007 or 2008, and it's stuck. Now ...I'm not sure I'm the one that brought that expression to bear, but I don't recall it used prior and regret it that it's been used ever since. It doesn't make sense, either. Truth is, it can be in the 90s through September 10, any given year, ...even after it has only seemed as though the corner was turned already. I was doing it in a moment of whimsy/jest all them years ago, and now it's like some kind of metric to get those that love winter onto their course of dopamine recovery LOL... But those that need back break want to start actual internet squabbles over it. heh

right, the article I happened by spoke of 'southern' France - hence 'similar' not sure how far n the anomalies are spreading

How about France ... 104 F for days in a heat wave at latitudes similar to ORD-BOS.

It's pretty clear that at least for us here in New England ... SE Canada and the eastern OV for that matter, "summer's back was broken" ( I actually hate that sentiment -) when that front cleared the region back on July 29. Earliest I've ever seen a season try committing to the onset of seasonal change, too. Typically the back gets painful and the season tries to sit down Aug 20 ..give or take. But this was actual break, an entry into what really appeals like we've been in (Autumn + CC)/2 ... something like that, ever since. Anyway, the big over top high with 552 dm hydrostats engulfing the area ... now D6 on the most recent run of the operational GFS, has actually been on the charts for some 8 cycles of consistency. Seems it's real.... That's going to frost in climo cold holes of interior Central and NNE. It won't be pervasive enough to raise headlines, but it'll be 40F at 5am with isolated 35 car top glisteners ... I see the backside woosh and bounce back attempt out there beyond? But I doubt it. This persistency of pattern to carve out the circulation mode over eastern mid latitudes of the continent ( I suspect - ) is more than merely a "pattern" in and of itself and is tied to some other hemispheric/planetary phenomenon. I mean it's a pattern, but because of the latter, it's exceeding the standard 45 and 90 day interval/philosophy on that. It's more changing/going to change at the rate of seasonal migration... digress -

Lol, you nailed it on the first paragraph. But the second paragraph hmm. Last winter was both per my own observation. I saw the gradient go from above normal to more normal, oscillations that seem to last two to three weeks, but biased in favor of more gradient. I’m not refuting - I’m more asking really because I saw a lot of that gradient saturation at times. But yes there were times when less. There are two types of that velocity problem, though… One is direct shear related in terms of fluid mechanics. The other one is related to wave propagation speed. What I saw last mid winter was kind of a relay between progressive wave translation vs -

Most tend to hoot at the notion but the climate change signal is large swing variability with increased short duration cold latter October through November into early Dec ... Then, gradient intense hemisphere with higher tropospheric torque during mid terms lending to more rain/ice. It seems to be taking place despite the antecedent ENSO variance, too. We'll see.