Saturday, August 27, 2011

First Fall Cold Front?

I don't know about you, but I'm sick of the heat.  I'd love to see a morning with a minimum temperature in the 50s so I can throw the windows open and let the cool air pour in.

Thus, in addition to keeping an eye on Irene, I'm searching for signs of a cooler airmass.  It's a ways out, but the 0600 UTC GFS is showing signs of the potential of a cold-frontal passage on Thursday.


The GFS ensemble members (from 0000 UTC) all put a trough over the west, but with a wide range of positions and amplitudes.


So, we can't count on it, but even a weak trough moving into would bring some relief, even if it just knocks temperatures down a few degrees and shuns out the monsoon moisture that is keeping our minimum temperatures so high.  Let's keep an eye on the models and our fingers crossed.

1 comment:

  1. And if you look out even further... great case of extratropical transition with a pacific Typhoon and then massive downstream development of a deep trough over the E. Pac. But that is really off in la-la land.

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