Weatherstreet.com forecast maps indicate much of the USA should expect some brisk weather for 10 days or more. Run mouse along dates at bottom to animate map.
Anthony Watts has an article pointing out that various weather forecast models agree on this.
Between global warming storms, we go fishing: pindanpost.com/2014/01/22/not-a-deadliest-catch-tastiest/
This is the kind of global warming that’s fun: pindanpost.com/2014/01/22/flood-warnings-for-the-west-kimberley-the-pilbara-and-the-northern-territory/
Please can we have some more.
Just an observation.
US is having an extremely cold spell, Australia is having a hot spell.
The US cold spell is equal to a similar episode in 1896. Australia had an extreme heatwave in 1896.
I suppose it’s just coincidence.
Record January rainfall in the Goldfields.
Leonora 180mm (old record 168.4mm)
Kalgoorlie about 2mm short of a record, but still rain around.
Heaviest rain looked to be to the east of Kal down toward Israelite Bay, but no recording stations in that area.
And less than a week ago I heard a BoM employee say bushfires would increase because of “our drying climate”. Whereas, over most of Australia the opposite is true. Heavy rain builds up the fuel load.
Todays Kalgoorlie rainfall of 103 mm takes the January rainfall just past the old record of 185.9mm.
Max temperature for the last 24 hrs is less than 19C. Well above the record low Jan max of 14.4C set in 1967.
SG notes in a recent post that this almost exact pattern occurred about 20,000 years ago. stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/shocking-polar-vortex-from-20000-years-ago/
accu weather, October 21, 2013
US Winter Forecast: Snow to Bury Rockies; Slow Onset in East
www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/us-winter-2013-2014-snow/18574742
accu weather, January 23, 2014:
Deep Freeze in Midwest, Northeast to Be Prolonged
www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/dangerous-cold-returns-to-ling/22351937
Parts of the Goldfields up into the Pilbara shutdown due to flooding, including a number of mines and major roads.
au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/business/a/20994956/floods-force-goldfields-shutdown/
Not important enough for the ABC, which apart from a piece on ABC radio has no mention of the flooding since this article 3 days ago.
www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-22/pilbara-goldfields-flooding/5213206
Rare snow, ice shock the Deep South – says USA Today –
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/28/weather-deep-south-ice-storm-snow-houston-louisiana/4957279/
The weatherstreet.com model looks little changed now out to 7 Feb –
Still rolling on –
Storm bears down on US east coast as havoc persists in South
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26165335