I'm a bit of a weather wonk, and I post occasional forecasts on a hiking
list for southern Arizona warning people of hazardous weather conditions so
that we don't have any more tragedies such as boy scouts getting caught in
winter storms and then dying from exposure.
The weather being experienced by the eastern US and southeastern Canada
has been pretty severe this winter, and it's about to take a turn for the
worse. A new storm is developing in south-central Canada that will become
stronger than anything seen so far. Even though the centre will be in southern
Ontario and Quebec, its effects will be felt as far away as the deep South, and
there will be significant weather from northern Georgia to Newfoundland on
Tuesday. Offshore mid-altitude (15,000') winds will exceed 100kTs late Monday,
and the isobaric lines are so close together I have to magnify the chart to
read it. The entire jet stream will be passing over North Carolina and the
Atlantic Seaboard, and the centre pressure is the lowest I've seen this season.
This may well turn out to be the strongest winter storm yet, and the polar
GFS plots show that it is far from being over.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird go pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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