Late Fall Regime Continues Across CONUS, any end in sight?

[gatorcane]

Looks an awful lot like late fall and winter across the United States with deep westerlies all the way down across the FL peninsula and a huge trough digging down across the mid-west and pushing south....

How long could this continue? No Way anything tropical is getting close to the US with this pattern:

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ECIR4.html

[SouthFloridawx]

Well it is getting to be that time of year. I would hardly say it's a winter time type of regime though.

I would say it is a pretty typical fall time patter though.




GFS showing a warm up in 5 days in the Mid West though.

[hurricanetrack]

No winter here. Temps in the 80s and still going to the beach. If this is winter, then oil prices will be at $20 per barrell by March!

[MGC]

Yea, bring back 25 cents a gallon gasoline as I remember as a kid. I think oil was like 4 bucks a barrel back then....long, long ago......MGC

[gatorcane]

NWS Miami mentions how impressive front is. I think the tropical season could end early this year.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
940 AM EDT THU SEP 28 2006

.UPDATE...FIRST FRONT OF THIS FALL SEASON IS IMPRESSIVE THIS
MORNING...MARKED BY LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST
SOUTH OF CHOKOLOSKEE EAST TO FORTY MILE BEND ON TAMIAMI TRAIL ANDTHEN NORTHEAST TO ABOUT FORT LAUDERDALE. DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S LAG
THE LINE OF CONVECTION BY ABOUT 40 MILES BUT THE WIND SHIFT TO THE
NORTH/NORTHWEST IS CONSISTENT TO THE NORTH OF THE CONVERGENCE LINE.
BOTH THE 06Z GFS AND NAM/WRF BACK THE SURFACE WINDS TO THE WEST
DURING THE DAY TODAY AHEAD OF ANOTHER IMPULSE THAT IS FORECAST TO
PROPAGATE ACROSS MAINLAND SOUTH FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON. WILL KEEP
CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A KAPF-KPBI LINE BUT
DIMINISH RAIN CHANCES FOR THE LAKE OKEECHOBEE REGION WHERE DEWPOINTS
HAVE DROPPED INTO THE 60S. WILL ALSO ADJUST WINDS ACROSS COASTAL
WATERS AND ZONE FORECASTS TO AGREE WITH OBS AND EXPECTED TRENDS.
UNIDIRECTIONAL SOUNDING AT MIAMI TAKEN THIS MORNING AHEAD OF THE
FRONT IS FAIRLY WET WITH NEARLY 2 INCHES OF PRECIPITABLE WATER BUT
AGAIN MARGINAL INSTABILITY.

[Scorpion]

It felt like fall outside today. Impressive for September.

[gatorcane]

It felt like fall outside today. Impressive for September.

yeah even about 50 miles further south down the coast in Boca/Delray,it was a tad cooler today. Felt and looked more like a November day here.