by WeatherFlow meteorologist Shea Gibson For SAL-ty Atlantic Part I of this series, please see: http://blog.weatherflow.com/sal-ty-atlantic-the-saharan-air-layer/ For SAL-ty Atlantic Part III of this series, please see: http://blog.weatherflow.com/sal-ty-atlantic-part-iii/ So far, the Atlantic Season has seen two named storms: CAT 2 Hurricane Arthur – which formed off the SE coast and made landfall over coastal NC… and Hurricane Bertha,…
Here is one of those days where I just bowed to mother nature and said, “You won this round”. The setup here is a strong ridge of High pressure dominating the eastern seaboard which pretty much rules out much of a synoptic breeze (frontal generated). I thought this would be a…
Quite common in the early summer setups are these high pressure surface ridges that just… barely…nudge…. off.. the… coast. People don’t believe me when I say yes there are situations with Rhode Island will see stronger winds than Cape Cod, but days like this is one of those situations. Here is the general Sea…
by WeatherFlow meteorologist Shea Gibson 6/25/14 See part II of this series here: http://blog.weatherflow.com/sal-ty-atlantic-the-saharan-air-layer-part-ii/ See part III of this series here: http://blog.weatherflow.com/sal-ty-atlantic-part-iii/ The “Dusty Tongue” of the Sahara keeps the northern ITCZ and Eastern Caribbean dried out through June 2014. The Saharan Air Layer, or SAL, is fed by Easterly mid-level jetting over the deserts of Africa…
The cold water temps of this Spring are producing quite a strong engine for thermal assisted sea breezes. One area the typically is a firecracker for the sea breezes is the inner passages for Rhode Island. Today I suspected this might happen but I shied away from it due to the large amount…
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Just caught a good example in the VA area of conditions that reflect two of my staple bullet points in synoptic setups such as the one we are seeing today. (*Heads up for fluky conditions / shifty directions as each synoptic feature changes position / gains and or loses influence) and (*Showers and or thunderstorms…
So you may be thinking to yourself… There’s a cold front approaching our area from the W, so I just might get a session in today. Well, in an ideal approaching cold front setup with a strong well positioned center of low pressure associated with the boundary and a strong high pressure out in the…
We suspected this might happen today. Our briefing last night we mentioned it might, and in the update this morning we increased our forecast numbers for Pt. Judith. Good thing we did! In these post frontal days, we can often see a secondary trough that gets established along the central RI waters and…
This snapshot of wind observations combined with a radar image of storms moving through NJ from W to E is a good example of a gust front / outflow boundary increasing our wind speeds out ahead of approaching storms. A gust front / outflow boundary is simply a storm scale mass of cold / cool…