Wednesday, January 5, 2011

January Chill

It's here and I think it's here to stay...the chilly weather that is.  But hey, that's to be expected for this time of year, right?  The atmosphere is going to start to see a change within the next week or so as the Arctic Oscillation is forecast to fall below the neutral state towards the middle of January.  The Arctic Oscillation refers to opposing atmospheric pressure patterns in the northern middle and high latitudes.  So typically when we start to see it go into the negative phase the jetstream will move further south which allows colder air to push deeper into the southern States.  This appears to be the pattern we could get into over the next couple of weeks.

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