[TheForge] Re: artic blast

[Mike Spencer]

Dan> Hey you guys can have your jet stream back now.
Dan>
Dan> 12d in west Ga. w/  15mph wind.
Dan> We're used to 55d.

Hmm.  Oh, will you look at that?  I seeee.....

   http://www.weatherbank.com/free/grafx/jsnh.gif

6AM Monday it was south of New Orleand and over the gulf.  Huh.
And look at the predicted path!

   Bodges?  We don't need no steenking bodges.  But we could using some
   wooley mittens.

Phlip> 10 degrees, with about 5 inches of snow, here in CT. Wasn't our
Phlip> idea, it's those bloody Canadians!!!!

Who, us?  What?

Justin> Hey to the folks in the Maritimes. Like I have something to
Justin> complain about.

Umm....Maritimes, you say?  Yes, about 50F with some fog and a light,
intermittent rain all day today.  About 34F now (2:00 am) with pale
moonlight through the thin overcast.

>From the looks of this:

   http://squall.sfsu.edu/gif/jetstream_init_00.gif
   http://squall.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream.html

I'd guess the jetstream is entraining air mass from Cuba and pushing it
right up over Nova Scotia.  How splendid.  That and the gulf stream make
it so nice and warm here that.... Oh Sh*@#!  Now we have to kill you.


- Capn. Bluenose