Sunny Days Are About Over

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

NOWCAST - Another chilly night tonight then increasing clouds Thursday, I think any precipitation will remain to our west due to the upper wind flow and the easterly low level flow which would tend to evaporate moisture as it moves eastward. Not much of a push but I cannot rule out a snow flurry or two. Even some sleet as well. Beyond that the weekend still looks interesting with a good possibility of significant lowland snow and let's forgo the magic 500 foot level this time. The next system may be mix of snow/rain or one or another at times and may switch to rain below 1,000 feet but by Sunday colder maritime polar air will infiltrate the low and turn any mix to all snow and will continue for 36-48 hours off and on. This could be the big one . . .or not. Isn't that just like a weatherman? Always leaving an out, after all it is up to the weather gods who control the big weather machine out in the Pacific. So lows tonight in the low 20's wind sheltered areas and warmer in windy areas. East winds continue. Highs Thursday, cooler with more cloud cover 35-40 degrees.

OUTCAST - MY contact up in western Alaska at Sleetmute, Eskimo Louie, reports that temperatures are dropping rapidly and the leading edge of the cold Siberian air mass is filtering in. His barometric pressure was 1074 millibars (30.74 inches) inches this afternoon and still rising and stiff northwesterly winds. He tells me not to give up hope for snow as he is doing his best to shoot some cold our way. He does a hip snow dance I know! This is good because although the bulk of it will slide across the interior into the Yukon, part of it will get injected into the open ocean waters and into the air flow that will be feeding Saturday's weather systems. When we hear ship reports of snow at sea level, bingo. Stay tuned.

Here is a twist:
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK
1243 AM AST WED JAN 23 2008

...PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...

A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 37 DEGREES WAS SET AT FAIRBANKS
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT YESTERDAY. THIS TIES THE OLD RECORD OF 37 SET
IN 1962.  THE LAST TIME THE TEMPERATURE REACHED THE FREEZING MARK AT
THE AIRPORT IN FAIRBANKS WAS BACK ON NOVEMBER 23, 2007. THERE WERE
A TOTAL OF 59 CONSECUTIVE DAYS WHERE THE TEMPERATURE REMAINED
BELOW FREEZING.
We were just a few degrees warmer is all. And Tuesday at 8 am, Pearson airfield was setting at 18 degrees while Calgary was 29 degrees. Gotta love it. Global warming anyone? While it is cold in Portland Oregon it is also frigid in Portland Maine. Below zero temperatures in that state as well.


-- posted by Pat Timm @ 2:20 PM,

1 Comments:

At 8:41 PM, Anonymous washougalmom said...

I love your columns in the Columbian and now I discovered you online, too! I'm so excited to read your predictions for the next few days! My 7-year-old wanna-be weather-boy and I would really love some significant snow! :)

 

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