Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Always worth reading 2
I always read the NWS 'forecast discussion', though I don't understand half of the meteorology jargon. It provides a detailed picture of what's likely to happen, and it occasionally yields a hidden gem of poetry!
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DISCUSSION... Today through Thursday...A pair of surface low pressure centers will whirligig around each other just offshore through the next 36 hours...each in turn flinging it`s complex of warm fronts and occlusions through the forecast area. These frontal surface lifting mechanisms will be well fueled with deep fetches of Pacific subtropical moisture. Satellite indicates the offending lows pirouetting on the Pacific dance floor along 140W latitude. The first warm front appending from the northern storm is forming over the forecast area at this time and will push through this morning followed immediately by an occluded front which is approaching the Pacific coast at 2 am. A short but perceptible break period will occur this afternoon (from steady moderate rain in the morning to simply scattered/numerous showers in the afternoon) before the southern storm of the couplet hurls it`s warm front through the region tonight for another wet overnight period.With the aid of some Jesus-on-toast imagination, you can almost see it....
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