AMPLIFICATION

Jet flow around the Northern Hemisphere is comprised of a series of amplified troughs and ridges, though due to the positioning, flow coming over the pacific sort of hits a road block. The trough, ridge, trough pattern over the states is near alike to the pattern over the Atlantic. These two “omega blocks” look to keep our long wave pattern somewhat stagnant. We’ll look for and anticipate change through systems moving through the Jet.

There has been some consistency of a short wave dropping into the northern plains around the Wednesday / Thursday time-frame and then getting pinched off in the Ohio valley. This would be very interesting for us, seeing that we would end up with a northerly breeze with the Low setting up just to our northeast. This is the set-up for cooler than average highs and a few comfortable nights! It’s not quite like we’ve been basking in the upper 90s or triple digit land, though a mid-summer “cool period” might just feel pretty good!

We shall see.

Posted by Ted Zarras at 11:00 AM