Click here for visual loop of GOES West Satellite from University of Wisconsin - Madison
December 27, 2008
0230z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES West Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
Here's the deal folks. That vortex over Hawaii is going to stabilize the desent of that cold air mass just south of Alaska. There is another one headed from Russia to Alaska and Canada. After the current melting conditions cause floods there very well may be a return to freezing and more snow and ice.
December 26, 2008
08:41:55 PM
The Weather Network - 2.5 hour loop (click here to click on animation)
There is some percipitation over Canada that will be affecting the Pacific Northwest and northern tier of the USA as well as the folks in Canada. I'll pull in some other satellites of a front coming off northern Russia.
Noted in the 12 hour loop, a forming vortex right over Hawaii. There is also significant turbulence over Panama.
THAT 'HOT AIR' should be reaching Boston, Massachusetts within a couple of hours. I would expect the same disasterous mess that Chicago is seeing. Consider the dangers to Logan International for a quick shut down.
There needs to be vigilance over Colorado, too. Those two fronts are very moist both from the tropispheric moisture from the Equator and from the melting snow and ice. Large shifts in temperatures could bring sudden accumulations of storm clouds and wind shifts by the very nature of the melting and available 'ground' water vapor. ie: Clouds over Missouri, Indiana are getting denser by the minute. Anything can break loose with this drastic a temperature shift !
Last map update: Fri, Dec. 26, 2008 at 4:54:09 pm HST
URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI
341 PM HST FRI DEC 26 2008
...TRADE WINDS TRENDING DOWN THROUGH SATURDAY....
THE HIGH PRESSURE CELL NORTHEAST OF THE STATE WILL BE MOVING EASTSLOWLY AND WEAKENING THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THIS HAS RESULTED INDIMINISHING TRADES AND WIND WAVES...AND PERSIST THROUGH SATURDAY.
PHZ110>115-117-118-122-270245-/O.CAN.PHFO.SC.Y.0049.000000T0000Z-081227T0400Z/KAUAI NORTHWEST WATERS-KAUAI WINDWARD WATERS-KAUAI LEEWARD WATERS-
KAUAI CHANNEL-OAHU WINDWARD WATERS-OAHU LEEWARD WATERS-MAUI COUNTY WINDWARD WATERS-MAUI COUNTY LEEWARD WATERS-BIG ISLAND WINDWARD WATERS-341 PM HST FRI DEC 26 2008
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS CANCELLED THE SMALLCRAFT ADVISORY.
WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW SMALL CRAFT CRITERIA.
December 27, 2008
0230z
UNISYS Water Vapor North and West Hemispheric Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
Sounds like Human Induced Global Warming to me ! Sure enough. Heat transfer system right over top of Chicago. Moved in about three hours ago.
Ready for flooding
(Tribune photo by Abel Uribe / December 26, 2008)
Chicago Department of Water Management personnel move sand bags on the edge of the North Branch of the Chicago River on Monticello Avenue in preparation for possible flooding due heavy rains and melting snow.
