[wxqc] CWOP Measures Arctic Air in the Lower 48 States (CW 4419)

[rich mauser]

For a two day period before Street maintenance could get out and steam the
drains some people had problems.  Many streets are skating rinks and black
ice is a big problem on the Highways.

Rich (CW4419)

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   1. Re: Meso West (Gerry Creager N5JXS)
   2. Re: RE:CWOP Measures Arctic Air in the Lower 48 States
      (wdispv at netscape.net)


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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:30:39 -0500
From: wdispv at netscape.net
Subject: Re: [wxqc] RE:CWOP Measures Arctic Air in the Lower 48 States
To: wxqc at lists.gladstonefamily.net
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Boy at those temperatures, I can see why you might call it dog mushing. 
 Are you having any trouble with flooding?

We got down to 14f last night which is pretty cold for this climate.  
We'll have alot of damage to plants.

-----Original Message-----
From: rich mauser <rmauser at gci.net>
To: wxqc at lists.gladstonefamily.net
Sent: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 09:45:43 -0900
Subject: [wxqc] RE:CWOP Measures Arctic Air in the Lower 48 States

   It seem like every time when Pacific storms punch up towards Alaska 
you guys
in the lower 48 get to enjoy our weather or out-in-out steal our snow.
Unfortunately, we have mass melting that screws up skiing and dog 
mushing
(Iditarod).  Temperatures for the past 2 week have range between ~48 to 
32
(highs - daytime) and ~34 to 18 (lows-night time).

I have observed on numerous occasions that storms north of Hawaii and 
in the
vicinity of Guam get influenced the weather in Alaska.  Lows and highs
either or in combination punch out from Guam and or up just north of 
Hawaii
towards Alaska causing a bulging effect.  This bulge causes cold Yukon 
or
Artic air masses to be pushed down through Canada.  If you look at NOAA
satellites images you can see this effect.

http://www.arh.noaa.gov/satloop.php?sat=goes&sector=4gvf

If this link does not work go to www.arh.noaa.gov and click the GOES 
link
and select one of the links to the satellite loops, IR and water vapor 
are
the best.  From here check out Hawaii's and Guam's Satellite links
http://www.weather.gov/organization.php

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