From the National Weather Service:
“An early-season winter storm is expected to develop across eastern North Dakota into northern Minnesota beginning Wednesday night, as colder air filters into the region. Rain developing during the day on Wednesday will mix with or change to snow by Thursday morning, with the possibility for six inches or more of accumulation by Thursday morning.
SHORT RANGE FORECAST DISCUSSION
NWS HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER COLLEGE PARK MD
339 PM EDT WED OCT 03 2012
VALID 00Z THU OCT 04 2012 - 00Z SAT OCT 06 2012
...HEAVY PRECIPITATION POSSIBLE OVER PARTS OF THE UPPER
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY......TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR 25 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGE
FOR PARTS OF THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS AND 10 TO 15 DEGREES BELOW
AVERAGE FOR THE NORTHERN PLAINS SOUTHWARD TO PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN
HIGH PLAINS..."
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd
Of course if this were a heat wave ready to pounce, the media and the alarmosphere would immediately call it “dirty weather” and related to “global warming”.
I wonder if the Weather Channel will name this event?
h/t to Gordon Fulks
MRF has a much stronger storm following this one a week later…
But is it enough to get the Minnesotans For Global Warming all fired up again?
We are having typical drought conditions in NE Oregon. Hot, clear skies, and dry during the day, freezing cold, dry clear skies at night. I got up this morning to a wind-carried-dust covered car (and overturned garbage can right next to it). After I started up the car, I thought I could just push the button and wash n wipe that fine palouse soil off my front windshield. The wiper fluid immediately froze on the windshield.
CO2 that greenies!!!!
Tried to use a few more commas, than, you know, normal, in that second sentence. It’s like a contest now.
Apologies to Foreigner:
“Dirty White Weather”
Hey Al G. if you’re feelin’ down
I know what’s good for you all day
Are you worried what your friends see?
Will it ruin your reputation lovin’ me?
‘Cause I’m dirty white weather
Yeah dirty white weather
Dirty white weather………
Stefan says
“water absorbs EXTRA coldness ”
odd way of putting it.(I know what you are getting at though)
I think a better way is to say it looses more heat. 😉
with a single “o” of course !!!
hit my middle finger on a nail yesterday, and its made my typing EVEN WORSE than usual !!!!
I give up!
Here in Colorado Springs, it was 83 deg today. The cold front blasted through here at 7 PM. Looking at the radar, it’s almost to the New Mexico border already. Sometimes the cold fronts get hung up going over the Palmer Divide, but not this one. My wife, who is Korean, has been drying peppers on the deck the past few days. But that has come to an end. I intend to blow out the sprinkler system tomorrow, because it’s supposed to go down into the 20s the next couple days. I HATE the cold.
Whether can be interesting, when the guilt trip is removed.
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From:
http://thesaurus.com/browse/whether
Notes:
a wether is a neutered ram; weather is climactic and atmospheric conditions; while whether simply means ‘if’ or ‘either’
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Never knew about the ram thing, but weather/whether seem to have a commonality.
Pamela Gray says:
October 3, 2012 at 8:24 pm
“We are having typical drought conditions in NE Oregon.”
The northeastern Pacific has a REX Block (A blocking pattern where there is an upper level High Pressure located directly north of a closed Low pattern.):
Somewhat like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/NGM_700_MB.PNG
This is hanging on until mid-week – next week – maybe longer. On the image (not the current system) you can follow the wind flow northward over the Pacific Ocean and then around into the continental interior. The flow then exits central Canada into the US’s upper central states.
The current situation shows up well here:
http://www.intelliweather.com/
Pick the Pacific Satellite thumbnail, and then click on the symbol at the top for “Animate this image.” [If a loop can be saved and linked to, that would be nice. Otherwise, look now.]
speaking of whether to use wether, whether or weather.. look at this load of carp !!
Mostly WRONG !!!!
no wonder the world believes in things like AGW if this is the education that is found on the web !!!
Sorry, very OT !!
http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/wether
“TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR 25 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGE FOR PARTS OF THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS”
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So, where is Gore’s speaking engagement? Minnesota or North Dakota? Looks like Fargo.
Somewhere out there it will be 26 degrees above average. Or maybe 25.05 degrees (just enough) above average. You know, kinda balance everything out only leaning toward increasing temperature
No matter what happens they will find global warming. Whatever it takes. They know signal’s hiding in there somewhere.
cn
Ben U. says:
October 3, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Mariss says: […] Perhaps a new unit of measure should be introduced as well; the Gore scale. Winter storms could have a Gore scale for intensity
That’s an excellent idea. In fact algor is a Latin word for coldness or the cold. Winter storms could be measured in algors!
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From Wilipedia:
Algor mortis (Latin: algor—coldness; mortis—of death) is the reduction in body temperature following death.
So he wants to kill the economy to return the globe to ambient temperature?
If his parents had only named him “Bob”!
Pamela Gray says:
October 3, 2012 at 8:24 pm
We are having typical drought conditions in NE Oregon. Hot, clear skies, and dry during the day, freezing cold, dry clear skies at night. I got up this morning to a wind-carried-dust covered car (and overturned garbage can right next to it). After I started up the car, I thought I could just push the button and wash n wipe that fine palouse soil off my front windshield. The wiper fluid immediately froze on the windshield.
CO2 that greenies!!!!
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Try adding some ethonal to your wiper fluid. In some circles that’s touted as the cure for global warming.
Here on the west side of the Denver area, we went from 80+ the last couple of days to 40, within 3 hours. Brrrr! I am NOT ready for winter!
I hope we stay above freezing tonight so that I have time to bring my plants in and cover the tomatoes!
MIght be worth re-reading this comment by Dr. Brown. It seems prescient.
During the dust bowl 1930’s they said this same kind of stuff happened. Snow on knee high corn in October and mold on corn that produced. A lot of southern Illinois corn is very moldy, from what I have examined. Maybe the rain from Isaac’s romp through caused the mold.
Yeah, I’m leaving sub-toasty Iraq to go baq to sub-seasonal Qalgary. This suqs. Aqumulation indeed.
Thanks for that!
I can hear Elmer and the band at MFGW tuning up already.
Harvested green tomatoes AGAIN! 🙁
Wayne Delbeke says:
October 3, 2012 at 7:54 pm
Snowing here in the Great White North – central Alberta, Canada. Life is good, the snow makes everything bright and white. Tuning up the skis!! Now we just need the moderate El Nino to turn back to a La Nina for ski season!!!
Sorry to disappoint you Wayne, but the El Nino seems to be a little more like a La Nina if you look at http://weather.unisys.com/archive/sst/sst_anom-120930.gif you will see that the El Nino central hot SSTs are actually totally absent and instead there are cold waters welling up from Peru out across the Pacific. I think that the normal Nino 3.4 figures have been affected by the huge pool of cold water that has been in the East Pacific for more than a year now. Perhaps this is what a cold PDO looks like with satellites?
Looks like Yellowstone will close early if the snow arrives.
I drove through a snow storm in Dillon and Butte Montana on Sept. 28, 2007.