OK, well, I guess I'm not supposed to sleep tonight. A friend of mine who usually needs a shoulder to cry on called, just as I got to sleep - didn't answer, and just as I got to sleep - again - called again - din't answer and unplugged phones. Then, at 11:30, the next door neighbor having a party decided to shoot off fireworks for 1/2 hour. At least they could have invited me. I'm tired, in desperate need of sleep, and now I'm POed.
Anyway, now that I've vented, here's that jet stream that I was looking at 10 days from now:
But - it will take more than that jet to make it rain. The Gulf is effectively closed, upper and lower levels.
While I'm up doing this, the 30 day and 90 day forecasts:
Alrighty then - I'm going to bed.
Jen
We'll see who's right in a few days. I'm sticking with what I have. I feel the atmosphere is goinf to be too starved for moisture to have anything like thos kind of rains. Here's the issue:
High altitude, we have this large area of High pressure shutting off the Gulf - most of this week. It is not condusive for thunderstorm development. This map is not until next Monday. See that little cut off low over CA? It could bring them some much needed rain, but it continues up the West Coast and is reincorporated into the Jet Stream. That cut off Low will not be a recurrance of what we saw this sping bringing the rain to OK and TX. The closest I see to what NOAA has put out for all that rain is this:
That doesn't happen till Saturday, and I doubt that that will occur. The atmosphere is just going to be too dry. I'll stick with what I wrote on the 30th. Rainfall over an inch this next week is going to be the exception, not the rule, for 90% of the Midwest. (Interpretation - 90%, and more, of the Midwest will see less than an inch this next week). THIS IS NOT THE FROG STRANGLER THAT THE BEARS KEEP TOUTING.
Jen
Jen
