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Archive for May, 2017
Beautiful warm Late Spring Weather continues into Tuesday….Then breezy and cooler Wednesday followed by Warmer Weather Thursday into the following weekend…No Important weather changes ahead…
Sunday May 28, 2017
The spring runoff continues in full swing with High pressure aloft bringing above normal temps. This will likely continue into Tuesday with dry warm weather. High temperatures will remain above normal with highs in the 70s. Lows will continue in the 30s. It will be partly cloudy Wednesday with some cooling as a dry trough of low pressure moves through. There may be some wind and afternoon convection. However, with deep snow cover persisting over the higher elevations, model guidance is most likely over done with the heat related chance of showers, over the crest. Most convection will fire up over areas both east and west of the sierra crest because of this reason. Again, It will be cooler and breezy Wednesday with highs in the upper 60s. Ridging will rebuild into the following weekend for a return to the 70s. Next chilly trof may greet us, about fathers day. Fathers day climatologically is the last frost at resort levels. (8K)
Above normal temperatures have Spring run off in full swing….Upper high over the far west continues to build through mid-week then weakens and redevelops further west allowing a cool down to near normal temperatures in the high country over the holiday weekend and beyond…..
Monday May 22, 2017
The High Country run off from our record-breaking winter is in full swing this week. Main stem rivers to the north will flood pasture land over areas of Western Nevada.
Upper ridge now building north will begin to weaken this Thursday in response to retrogression of the long wave pattern prior to the holiday weekend. This will pull the Eastern long wave Trof further west and allow cooling of some 8 to 10 degrees over the holiday weekend. But don’t worry about high temps bring too cool. I still expect them to range in the mid to upper 60s for the upcoming holiday weekend…..Or slightly above normal. As the transition begins, our air mass will become a bit unstable Wednesday and Thursday for some late thunderstorm’s possible of the convective style. These will be diurnal only.
According to the ECMWF 5 day means, a closed upper high once again develops over Alaska very similar to the winter of 2017. (-EPO) This is once again is a blocking pattern and the westerlies will be forced underneath, making for a suppressed storm track. The big thing to remember is that this will be June by then and the effects are just usually cooler weather with more wind and a return to freezing temperatures in the high country at night. This looks to occur during the first week of June.
Normal high temperatures in Mammoth now are low 60s with mid 60s by early June. Low temps are usually in the mid 30s now.
More Later….
Dr Howard and the Dweebs………………………:-)
Last of the Eastern Pacific Upper Trofs has kicked out to the Desert Southwest with one more inland slider headed southeast today……Warmer weather on the way with beautiful weekened expected.
Tuesday May 16, 2017
It was a chilly day in Mammoth Monday with an inch or two of snowfall into town and a few inches over the upper elevations. The Split Trof that spun up a closed low took its time moving through Southern CA Monday. It brought between 6 to 10 inches of snow to the Southern Sierra and a few inches to Mammoth Mountain. This morning dawned with high cirrus and the pines all white again. High temps remained in the upper 30s Monday while early morning lows were well down into the 20s this morning. A hard freeze occurred once again for much of Mono County.
On a larger scale, the pattern at 500MB is transiting to a ridge in the west with a Trof in the Midwest. The Long wave Trof over the far Eastern Pacific is progressing east today with one last short wave that will affect the far west and Great Basin with snow showers today through tonight. This short wave is not coming in from the west at this latitude. It is more of a NW slider. Its 130 Knot NW upper jet will enter the NW corner of California by late this afternoon and drive southeast over the Northern Sierra tonight. This is typically a windy pattern for the Central Sierra as the front Rt exit region usually brings down sloping winds to our region. So expect quite the breezy night tonight. By Wednesday the jet axis progresses east, as at the sometime the Eastern Pacific Ridge builds inland into California. Thus the headlined warm up begins in earnest Thursday, then through the weekend. The Dweebs are expecting high temps well into the 60s by Saturday with summer like convection early next week.
Longer Range:
The long-range guidance shows the Spring thaw resuming this weekend through the end of next week…. Highs will remain mostly in the 60s this weekend through the following weekend. The interseasonal outlook does hint at another but weaker Trof setting up over CA during the first week of June.
Dr Howard and the Dweebs………………………………:-)
