Warm thoughts on a(nother) cold day
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Tucson basks in warm Arizona sunshine today
Here's a bulletin: It's cold in Minnesota.
We are ready to close out the month of January around 6 degrees below average.
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From the news headlines with a cold inauguration, a plane down in an icy Hudson River and wicked ice storms you'd think we're on the verge of another ice age everywhere in the good ol' USA. We're not.
Draw a line from Rapid City to Omaha to Little Rock to Dallas. Everywhere south and west of that line is running above average for the month. That's a pretty good chunk of the nation.
That's basically because the polar front jet stream has been running along and north of that line for much of the month.
Rapid City has had 4 days in the 60's and is running 1.2 degrees above average for the month.
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Phoenix +2.7
LA +2.8
Vegas +4.0
Dallas +4.4
Denver +5.5
The same amplitude of jet stream waves that produces warmth in Alaska when we are cold tends to keep the western U.S. warm during our arctic outbreaks.
Bring on February!
PH
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