Winter Just Beginning
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010This is a special blog related to the upcoming events that are possible over the next 2-4 weeks.
Many of you may have seen on the news, if they even are covering it, the extreme winter that is occurring all over the Northern Hemisphere. Big snows in Sweden, England along with extreme snow and cold in China. Bejing has not been below zero in 17 years. They may not only go below zero, but the all time record low of -9 is in play. The last cold front to go through our area has made it past Cuba and Cozumel. Morning lows in Key West were in the low 50′s. Freezing temps were common across most of interior Florida. International Fall has had the coldest start to a new year on record with -37, -39 and -34 degrees. It was -37 in Spencer, IA. The bad news, it may get worse.
Here is a GFS forecast at 34000′, in the jet stream area for midnight next Saturday.
Folks, it does get colder looking than this. The jet stream is coming from Siberia over the North Pole and right down into the southern states. With the North America now snow covered over 62%. Record lows are ensueing. This cold could take out the citrus in Florida with temps down to 22 in Orlando and 38 in Miami. Even temps to below zero in Memphis are not out of the question.
I’m not going to speculate as to how cold it will get here. There are still too many variables to look at. But checking the spread on all the models together, it has been fairly consistant over the last 3 days. Other models such as the European look even worse. Is it possible the coming weekend, or therabouts, will be equal to last year’s outbreak around mid month, maybe.
Occasional updates on this blog will be posted as things evolve and I will have a touch of info on the severe outlook as the days progress.