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Greetings everyone!
I will be taking some more time off for the holiday, and plan on resuming forecasts on Jan. 01, 2024.
Pulling up models this morning, there are only slight changes in the ongoing and upcoming pattern over the next 72 hours, and was discussed in my previous update on Dec 21. There is no threat as of yet for severe weather during this week, as per the Storm Prediction Center. I did however want to briefly touch on another phenomenon. From Jan. 01 – Jan. 08, a SSW (Sudden Stratospheric Warming) event is forecast to reload. This COULD be a major SSW event, as temperatures at 10m are forecast to increase by a little over 50C in a 6 day period. At the moment, it is unknown if this will disrupt the Polar Vortex enough to allow Arctic air to plunge southward over the U. S. Currently, forecast temperature maps do indicate a majority of the U. S. will experience freezing, to below freezing minimum temperatures on the morning of Jan. 04.
I will be monitoring this during my time off, and will update on this, and any significant winter weather that may be in the works after this week. As always, if a threat for severe weather does make its way into the forecast, I will have an update for you.
The following graphics indicate the temperature and height anomalies at 10 mb for the time period shown by the models:
ECMWF AND GEFS 10 MB TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES FORECAST
ECMWF AND GEFS 10 MB HEIGHT ANOMALIES FORECAST
ECMWF AND GEFS MINIMUM TEMPERATURE FORECAST FOR JAN. 04, 2024
SSW AND POLAR VORTEX ARTICLE FROM WIKIPEDIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_stratospheric_warming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_vortex
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Have a blessed day!
T. F. “STORM” WALSH III
GMCS, USCG (ret)
METEOROLOGIST / HURRICANE SPECIALIST /SEVERE WEATHER SPECIALIST
WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA HURRICANE and SEVERE WEATHER FORECAST CENTER 