Good Morning! Monday was an Record-breaking Arctic shocker with 23° at Dawn at MGM. (old record 29 from 1926/1991) The high on Veteran’s Day was 54. This morning we’ll be near freezing at Dawn. (Normal hi/low 71/44). Today will be the start of an absolutely remarkable turnaround. Expect upper 60’s before all is said and done. We’ll be Back to the 70’s Thursday through the weekend and beyond. In fact, upper 70’s are likely over the weekend. I have pushed back the risk of showers till Monday night or more likely Tuesday, but apparently not much. Here’s my brief video forecast discussion.
TODAY:
Sunny and warmer, with a high near 68. Clear and not as cold tonight. Low 45. (Normal hi/lo 71/44)
NEXT FEW DAYS: A remarkable turn-around is in our future. We’ll be Back to the 70’s Thursday through the weekend and beyond. In fact, upper 70’s are likely over the weekend. I have pushed back the risk of showers till Monday night or more likely Tuesday, but apparently not much.
Expected rainfall through Tuesday. Hardly any.
Here’s the Upper Pattern at 18,000 feet. The COLD is retreating. The warmth in the middle of the nation is expanding as an upper ridge builds.
Here’s the 10 Day model blend temperature trend. This simply remarkable. Soon that HARSH Artic Blast will be just a memory. Look at these numbers!
GEO MAGNETIC STORM TODAY:
Could northern lights be seen as far south as Alabama. Already there have been some spectacular pictures across north Alabama.
A severe geomagnetic storm is forecast to hit Earth’s magnetic field today which could cause widespread disruption to infrastructure technology and make northern lights visible for much of the northern half of the U.S.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on yesterday issued a G4, or severe, geomagnetic storm watch in response to recent coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, from the sun. CMEs are huge bubbles of coronal plasma that the sun occasionally ejects, NASA says. The highest geomagnetic storm level is G5, which is considered extreme.
The latest CME was the “most energetic and fastest of the CMEs” that erupted in the past few days, NOAA said. It was also associated with one of the strongest solar flares of the current solar cycle.
The severe storm is expected to impact Earth around midday today, the Space Weather Prediction Center said, although it noted the forecast is “tough” and it only had a “moderate level of certainty” on the timing.
Another G3, or strong, geomagnetic storm was expected to affect Earth on Thursday, NOAA said.
Thanks for reading this Blog this morning. This morning we are LIVE on the radio from 6 to 9 on NewsTalk 93.1. I’ll have another update for you in the 4 o’clock hour tomorrow morning. Have a nice day.
–Rich