#12311 Postby northjaxpro » Sun Jan 07, 2018 7:52 am
Well, for the fifth consecutive morning, I am experiencing freezing temperatures. Currently 32 degrees, with widespread frost here this morning.The actual morning low bottomed out at 28.4 degrees. A few clouds are beginning to move in and that caused the temp to rise a couple of degrees the past hour.
Yes, what an impressive cold spell we have had this past week across the region. We finally saw the max temperature yesterday finally reached at least 50 degrees. reaching 52 degrees yesterday afternoon. That was the first time since New Year's Eve when temperatures were that warm for max temps here in Northeast Florida.
Well, we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel now as this arctic cold spell is coming to an end for now. The Arctic High over the Ohio River Valley early this morning will move southeast today. to off the Mid Atlantic coast by later tonight. This will finally get the region back into a moderating northeast onshore wind flow and begin the warm-up. We should be back to near 70 degrees by Tuesday here in Jax, and upper 70s to near 80 degrees the rest of the peninsula by the end of this week as southerly flow will.kick in earnest. It truly will feel rather nice to have a thaw from Old Man Winter this upcoming week. There is a weak GOM Low Pressure area forecast to develop and affect the peninsula with some rain late Monday night and continuing into the latter part of the week.
Enjoy the thaw though. It looks like the pattern with the strong +PNA and -AO looks to continue. There are indications that more arctic dumps from Siberia and Northwest Canada will drop south into the Central and Eastern CONUS beginning January 15 and possibly continuing for the rest of the month and into early February.
Well, let us all hope that our unbelievable luck with the NAO staying positive to help spare the peninsula from getting the very harshest of the cold will continue. We would have likely had a historic major cold outbreak imo realized this past week down across the peninsula had the NAO been negative to go along with the strong +PNA, -AO teleconnection in progress. It has been truly amazing that the Florida peninsula continues this streak during winter of not having a major tanking of the NAO since the 2009-2010 season.
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