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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Southern California Prepare For Intense Arctic Storm |
| 2008-12-09 |
| Rare 50 year Arctic Blast Sets Sights On Southern California. With a week away, and a sure sign of things to come, OWSweather.com is making preparations on the server to handle the traffic from this next event. UJEAS is in line with the majority if not all the other models in keeping a near historical arctic air mass into the Southern California region. With a warm November, Southern California is finally ready for cold storms to make their way in. Resort level snow will be likely next week, and in pretty hefty amounts if things stay on track. OWSweather.com Meteorologist Kevin Martin predicts a 50 year event. While Martin is usually conservative on these events, the pattern highly favors it. "We are in a pre-1950 type pattern, "said Martin. "We know we are due for a winter storm sometime this year. The type we may be dealing with will be ranked up there with the known years before 1950, which set record low daytime temperatures into the forecast region. With this, may come low elevation snow." Forecaster Cameron Venable is seeing very cold temperatures in the Los Angeles areas as well. Torrance is not usually known for winter weather, thus making this an interesting event for Venable to track. "Temperatures in Siberia, Russia will be -81 degrees this week, "said Martin. "With those type of temperatures the arctic air mass has to spill somewhere. Our answer of the exact track will become more clear this week. All residents in the mountain communities should prepare this week for very cold, winter weather, with snow." Indications are a second, colder storm could hit near the 18th-22nd time-frame. The details on that will have to be sorted out. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #14 Pacific Northwest to get nailed this weekend: http://www.weather.com/weather/alerts/localalerts/USOR0275?phenomena=TSL&significance=S&areaid=ORZ006&office=KPQR&etn=6ae36f2f7304fc8f05cb5af50b5a074dee51ab24 |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-12-09 17:24 |
| #13 well, I live in an inland valley, and it gets down in the 20's - 30's for periods, most winters |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-12-09 16:23 |
| #12 What do y'all in SoCal consider 'cold'; besides the Charger's playoff hopes? We were 65 and calm yesterday and today 28 with 25mph winds, that drastic a change in half a day makes it that much more miserable - hope you all got cold gear stuff ready just in case. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-12-09 16:21 |
| #11 cool link. I use the Unisys Sat IR and WV pics all the time |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-12-09 16:14 |
| #10 There is one relatively reliable (but by no means infallible) computer model which gives detailed pressure and precip up to 10 days from the initialization period. It is viewable at: http://weather.unisys.com/gfsx/9panel/gfsx_pres_9panel.html And shows an intense cold core storm in in the SCal area from day 6 to day 10. |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-12-09 15:25 |
| #9 mild santa ana starting today but I hear rain in the forecast for so cal this weekend and next |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-12-09 14:42 |
| #8 Onanism only makes you feel less cold. You have to love yourself before you can love others. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-12-09 14:40 |
| #7 About 12 Years ago (Memory is not exact) we had a freak snowstorm here in Central Alabama, got around 8 inches. I remember it clearly because I had a tremendous pine tree, over burdened by the snow cut my home in half, (Nobody hurt) |
| Posted by: Rednek Jim 2008-12-09 14:37 |
| #6 Deacon, Onanism only makes you feel less cold. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-12-09 14:19 |
| #5 global warming of course. |
| Posted by: newc 2008-12-09 14:10 |
| #4 Glendale High School 1949, before Global Warming. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2008-12-09 13:59 |
| #3 We've already had more snow here than the last 2 years combined. And very cold to boot. Imma layin' in more wood. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-12-09 12:45 |
| #2 second,colder storm could hit near the 18th-22nd time-frame. It's begining to look a lot like Christmas! Better ask Santa for some extra CO2. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-12-09 12:42 |
| #1 Let me guess, Al Gore visiting? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2008-12-09 12:27 |