Monday, December 8, 2008
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – December 8, 2008 (OWSweather.com) Rare 50 year Arctic Blast Sets Sights On Southern California.
With a week away, and a sure sign of things to come, OWSweather.com is making preparations on the server to handle the traffic from this next event. UJEAS is in line with the majority if not all the other models in keeping a near historical arctic air mass into the Southern California region.
With a warm November, Southern California is finally ready for cold storms to make their way in. Resort level snow will be likely next week, and in pretty hefty amounts if things stay on track. OWSweather.com Meteorologist Kevin Martin predicts a 50 year event. While Martin is usually conservative on these events, the pattern highly favors it. “We are in a pre-1950 type pattern, “said Martin. “We know we are due for a winter storm sometime this year. The type we may be dealing with will be ranked up there with the known years before 1950, which set record low daytime temperatures into the forecast region. With this, may come low elevation snow.”
Forecaster Cameron Venable is seeing very cold temperatures in the Los Angeles areas as well. Torrance is not usually known for winter weather, thus making this an interesting event for Venable to track.
“Temperatures in Siberia, Russia will be -81 degrees this week, “said Martin. “With those type of temperatures the arctic air mass has to spill somewhere. Our answer of the exact track will become more clear this week. All residents in the mountain communities should prepare this week for very cold, winter weather, with snow.”
Indications are a second, colder storm could hit near the 18th-22nd time-frame. The details on that will have to be sorted out.
OWSweather.com staff More information: www.OWSweather.com (h/t to PearlandAggie)
Now Snow in New Orleans???
http://www.ktbs.com/news/Snow-down-south-21496/
Kevin was right, again. Arctic blast is coming down the Western Coast.
You don’t need a degree in meteorology to know “science” Kevin has a gift for patterns and numbers. He is a savant. His story intrigues many in Southern California. We all love him!
Forgot to add. He has a wind advisory up for our mountains. Kern. NOAA has nothing up yet and I’ll wait.
Kevin is usually hours if not days before NOAA.
Very excellent website OWSweather is and glad he is getting the much deserved publicity. Some is bad. Some is good. Any publicity is good.
Apparently, the last time sunspot-less days were so high in two consecutive years (1911-1913), the Great Lakes ALL froze over.
There’s a serious bout of cold in Canada right now.
Any bets laid on skating from Chicago to Lake Huron in 2009?
A bit off topic, but the snow is easy to fix.
The primary problem is tight loops calling rnd()
and Math.Random(). Instead of repeatedly
making up random numbers, pre-calculate
an array of many, say 10,000, and walk through
the array.
For extra pseudo-randomness, have an array
of steps, where each member is relative-prime
to the size of the array. For example, 10000
is 2*5*2*5*2*5*2*5. Use steps 7, 13 and 23
in sequence mod 10000.
This table-driven approach will remove about
80% of the execution time.
A similar approach can be used for the floating
point random numbers.
Thanks Judy. I did some research on Kevin. Sorry about my comments. He is an admirable person.
Pamela said:
So for all you California types, get used to wool swimwear. It just ain’t the same as a little yellow pocka dot bikini made out of soft cotton and spandex.
Really! Wool in the hot tub? What a crazy idea. Swimsuits in the tub is just silly anyway. Hmm… maybe only a little crazier than me in a bikini (yellow spotted or otherwise…) But it is cold enough to need a nice robe for to-ing and fro-ing and we will need to be doing Irish Coffee rather than Scotch/rocks… Sacrifices MUST be made!
Does anyone know where that ’70s fondue set went?…
It is on the cool side of seasonably cold right now, but there is something pensive about it. A sense of impending SOMETHING. Probably the cold with very low but non-zero wind speeds. And standing in the sun doesn’t feel very warm. The squirrels are going nuts with packing in the chow too, and the cat has a very fluffy winter coat on. Hoping for a while Christmas…
Baton Rouge had 3-4 inches of snow this past Thursday…it is a record of some sort. I called Al Gore’s office but no one answered.
Seems to have nailed it.