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Old 06-09-2008, 01:24 PM   #3
CanisLupusArctos
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You're welcome. I love doing this. Especially when it works out. LOL

I do have two updates.

1) The severe weather threat for today has been expanded to include all of New Hampshire, not just areas north and west of here. This isn't widespread activity we're expecting today, but merely pulse-type thunderstorms resulting from this hot humid air being so unstable, you could almost get it to rise/form thunderheads just by coughing (not quite, but you get the point.) Some of today's pulse-type thunderstorms (the kind Florida gets almost every afternoon) may reach severe limits and it'll be a crap-shoot as to which towns will get one and which ones won't.

2) For anyone still wondering what's been causing all this severe weather across the country, here's today's watch/warning map. The blue rectangular box is a Severe Thunderstorm Watch. Note the presence of winter storm watches in Montana! This is June? The cold air is pouring southeastward out of Canada. In its path, a high pressure system (clockwise circulation) is off the east coast pumping air from the Gulf of Mexico up to us. The cold air (enough to make the snow come down in June!) is providing a trigger for all this unstable hot/humid air.

The cold air will modify as it makes the trip across the country, but will still be more than enough to trigger widespread destabilizing of this hot/humid stuff.
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