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Western Weather Blog: Weather throws us a knuckleball

Posted by: Maven on March 5, 2010 at 8:17 am

weather mapFrom the Accu-Weather Western Weather Blog:

“With spring training getting underway, it’s appropriate to use a little baseball metaphor today, as I did in the headline. We all know that closed lows can be a weatherman’s woe. Computer models tend not to handle these well, and the next storm is no exception to the rule. I will try to get some glove on this storm, hoping not to boot it and make an unforced error.

Once again, I will show a satellite picture of the Pacific to get things started.

A mass of clouds off the Northwest coast on south with the back edge along 135W is the beginnings of this next storm. What is going to happen is that a lot of energy digging south on the western side of this trough will force a closed low to form by Friday morning just inside of 130W off the northern California coast. This low will then slowly dig almost due south a fair distance off the coast. … “

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March 5, 2010 · Filed Under Drought, Weather & Snowpack

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