Cold Weather Impact on Hurricanes
Posted by
Stedwoo on 8/17/2009, 7:17 pm
Sorry I have not posted I was busy touring the eastern half of the US over the summer (was with a DCI Drum Corps doing 11,000 miles in 41 days)and just returned after being gone 8 weeks.
It was discussed to small degree in the Lake Charles NWS discussion but I want to provide a personal observation.
I am, in my own mind, not surprised at the lack of Hurricanes this year or the fact, that now that they are starting up, most are either predicted to turn North or getting KO'd once they get east. While the extreme South has had brutally hot weather, average high temperature in Georgia, Alabama and northern Florida was 105 plus degree temperatures in Mid June for 10 plus days. While at the same time the Northern portion of the US was down right cold for the summer.
We went from 105 degree temperature on June 23 in Georgia to a high of 58 degrees in Glenn Falls New York on July 1st (average for that day is 68 low and 80 high) in Stillwater Minnesota we had mid 50's and ow 70's (average mid 60 and mid 80's, Dubuque IA we had 76 and 54 (average is 83 and 61.
It was like that all summer we cooked while in the South in both June and mid July when passed through and froze to death any time we went north of 34.5 degrees North (Olive Branch MS had 74 high and 65 low July 21st(average 82 and 72).
I don't know what was going on but the fronts were pushing down from Canada and giving Canadian weather to the Northern US and even to the midwest. I do not know if this is a result of the El-nino or what but if the Jet Stream is kicking that far south a Hurricane does not stand a chance of hitting mainland with any punch coming from the East.
The weather up north in July was more typical of Late September temperatures. Since I did not have a access to tv (or internet) for 8 weeks I did not see weather patterns (did see sat pictures of that storm that pushed out of/across MO, OK, Ark, and TN in late july and it was huge and ugly to be in) but if they are pushing down that early it will kill anything coming from the South, early season storms, and the strong August storms that sneak south of Cuba.
Is colder weather forecast for the rest of the fall and what I was personally observing jive with what was on the actual weather map.
Does anyone know the hurricane history for periods where it was that cold during the summer in Midwest.
Good to be back finally, but maybe it was quiet because I was gone. The week I get back on the PC and we have three right off the bat. Maybe I need to go away again.
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