MESO CLIMATES AMAZE ME!
Written By: Scott Hetsko
The map is from today at 3pm and it shows the weather at that time across NY and Northern Pennsylvania. These maps are looked at hourly by meteorologists and aviators alike to get a snapshot of current conditions. Please click on the map for a larger image that you can actually read! I placed a little legend on the upper right hand corner which explains what each number and symbol means.
The reason I'm showing this today is to demonstrate how an East wind means different weather across the state. Notice that temperatures were in the 40s with cloudy skies for most communities East of I-87. Very cold and moist air was blowing in off the Atlantic. Meanwhile further West, temperatures were well into the 50s with abundant sunshine! An East wind here today actually warmed valley towns in the Western Finger Lakes. Dansville soared well into the middle 60s today!
The warm air has been GREAT Scott! How is next week looking for us? Is it too early to tell??
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ReplyDeleteI love watching these micro climates around this part of the country. Today in Cleveland, OH, they hit 68 degrees by the noon hour, then plunged nearly 20 degrees to 50 by mid afternoon as Lake Erie's breeze kicked in. Very neat stuff.
I have a question about the pattern today. With the east, downsloping wind, is this the same kind of pattern that we get when we're in a Bermuda High in the summer? If this pattern happened in, let's say, late July, would be be talking about temps into the 90s?
Scott is this going to be one of the warmer St. Paddy's day parades? Do you think the turn out will be better than usual because it's milder, or will the forecast for rain cancel that out?
ReplyDeleteScott did I hear you correctly that 40-80 THOUSAND people are expected for the parade? That's going to be a spectacular sight in downtown. I just moved here from a much smaller city, so i'm looking forward to having that big city feel this saturday.
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