Your Weather
Tropical Storm Karen is starting to look like pretty weak tea compared to the rest of the country.
Southern California looks set for a major outbreak of Santa Ana winds that will be stronger than Karen’s and may cause or exacerbate fires.
The Northern Plains are under blizzard warnings as a cold front moves through.
The MidWest is preparing for severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes ahead of that front.
Karen seems to be having issues with dry air and wind shear, so it doesn’t look like it will achieve its full potential.
All of this is tied to a massive low pressure system in the center of the US that is pulling down cold air and pushing up warm, moist air.
Have a nice weekend 😉
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Looks like I’ll have a very *warm* weekend, thanks to those Santa Ana winds. Supposed to hit the 90’s this weekend — *way* warmer than it’s supposed to be this time of year.
You could live along the Missouri River, like Council Bluffs, Iowa, and have thunderstorms and tornadoes followed by a blizzard.
Things are seriously screwed up, and now the storm has stalled in the Gulf.
Your weather has been way warmer than it is supposed to be all year. I don’t remember a day without a sweater or jacket the whole time I was in Monterey, and you wore both if you went to San Francisco.
Well, most of last week the weather was what it is supposed to be this time of year in the Bay area — low 50’s at night, mid 70’s during the day. But now suddenly we get this warm roasting wind from the east, it was 80F when I got home at 7PM today and I had to unfurl the air conditioner hoses and set the air conditioners back up again (I’d furled them up and rolled the units aside for the winter) so the house would be cooled down by time for bed. WTF?
I hate to say it, but the weather here here is great. Sunny with a few white clouds, and in the high 70s.
It looks like Karen is about to be depressed by the Great State of Louisiana, instead of annoying anyone else. The system that is toasting you is pulling the storm apart. Those poor people in the Plains had their roofs taken off by tornadoes and are now dealing with snow.
I’m starting to feel guilty.
It got up to the low 90’s in some places here in Santa Clara today. In October. When the average high is in the high 70’s. My air conditioners started running around noon when the temperature outside hit around 85 (my house has a lot of thermal mass so it took it that long to get up to 75 inside), and haven’t quit running yet.
Weird weather indeed…
That mess heading East, apparently now tagged as Winter Storm Atlas, is the 800 pound gorilla of current weather, and it kicked the hell out of Karen, pushing the upper circulation more than 100 miles East of the low-level circulation, as well as driving up your electric bill when you were getting ready to plug in cat beds.
We will get rain when it comes through as a cold front, but we aren’t going to see anything but clouds to the South from Karen.
Four feet of wet snow in South Dakota! Six inches is a back breaker. Plowing just forms ice walls as it packs. That is roof-busting snow.
I’m starting to feel guilty.
ouch. me too, though i’m mostly relieved not having to worry about evacuating with eleventymillion half-wild cats.
I have to get back to work. Karen got mugged by the cold front and became a remnant at 10AM in pretty much the same area she has been stuck for over a day.
I was concerned that the storm would spin up and start sucking up oil from the bottom.