Saturday, April 6, 2013

April 6

Today started out decent, but at the moment it is raining and the sky is overcast. Looks like we were impacted by that weather system as was predicted.

Temperature: 37°F
Dewpoint: 36°F
Humidity: 96%
Wind: NW at 14mph
Pressure: 999.7mb

 So, here is our surface weather map. As you can see we have a low pressure system dominating our region. That cold continental polar airmass that we saw previously has mixed with the warm maritime tropical airmass that followed the jetstream up from the south east.
 Here is the current jetstream image.
 There is a lot of moisture in the air, as we can see by this water vapor satellite image. Plenty of moisture in our area, as well as near the Rockies.
 You can see the low pressure system pulling the air into itself over us, causing rain and poor weather.

Judging by this trend, I would suggest that we will continue to receive bad weather tomorrow, there might be a break between the low pressure systems over us and the ones over Texas and Oklahoma, but I'd like to predict that we will be hit by those also in the coming days, causing more precipitation, possibly in the form of snow or cold rain as that air mixes with the polar airmass.

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