Unsual US weather patterns?

[REBrueckner]

I don't recall much in the way of general weather discussions here in the forums. You all know the critical part weather plays in safe boating. Why don't we discuss that more???

This is my first full summer at home in NJ since selling my 48YF....Prior to that I spent most of the summers cruising between NY and Maine. Spent most of June, all July, and August in Me. For the portion of time I was home last year in NJ, weather in Maine via TV weather maps did not appear unsual.

But this year it seems like there has been a lot more rain across Maine than here in NJ. That's unusual. In past years as best as I can remember, there was hardly any rain in coastal Maine....almost no thunderstorms (unlike my home waters on LI Sound (NY) where you can expect one rucus or so a week) ....evening and morning fog moisture on the islands in Maine, I suspect accounts for a lot of local mositure. I was in one thunderstorm, southern Maine, in six years of cruising there. It was a beast at the Saco River area.

Weather variations in your area: Has the Jet Stream been unusally far north this year...that might draw moisture up that far and account for the heat across middle America....and here in NJ. What other unsual weather patterns have boaters noticed?? I know panic forecasts about tropical storms in the Gulf of Mexico mostly petered out.

Safety Note: Remember that in addition to NOAA weather on "weather radios" the USCG on Channel 22 reports emergency weather conditions....and notice to mariners.... USCG monitor's many weather sources from NOAA, to CNN, to NWS among others. And for a list of USCG weather broadcast stations, see the back of Eldrige (the yellow soft cover book) TIDE AND PILOT BOOk, around pages 242-243.

 

[q240z]

It's been a warm, wet year. Not as cold in the winter as it has been recently, but with record snowfall. There wasn't really a spring. We went from winter to summer, and it's been a hot summer with many extremely powerful thunderstorms.

But in the seven years I've been in this area, the weather every year has been different. I really couldn't tell you what "usual" weather is here.

 

[REBrueckner]

q240....and you are located where???

 

[spartonboat1]

It has been hot recently in MI this month. When I was young, 60 years ago, that was called "August", and August's were was hot back then. There have been hotter summers in the 30's and the 50's, and this year is just hotter than in the last 15-20 years. Since 15-20 years is usually one weather cycle (20 years or so), usually defined by Sun Spot cycles, our current weather is following long trends.

While we and Russia have been having high temps, the same areas of Russia had record cold last winter. And down below the equator, where it is now winter, they are having record cold, with loss of sea mammals, due to the cold.

Seattle is have record cold this summer.

By far and away the most sensible interpretation of the weather trends and systems in the found the Weather Channel, John Coleman. His analysis makes all the other forecasters sound immature or at least, like amateurs. Hunt him on the Internet for a reasoned analysis of the current weather and trends.

 

[C. Edmund]

We had a cold winter (NC) with more than average snow.

We had virtually no spring, and a hot hot summer with a lot of rain in certain areas (except June, which was dry).

Seems like our airport -- the official reporting station -- misses a lot of the thunderstorms so it's under reported on the official totals.

Not sure that there's ever such a thing as "average" weather. Seems like average weather is simply a mathematical hypothetical derived from all the extremes that actually happen.

 

[StratPlan61]

Friends in the SF area of CA tell me they have had a cool summer, not as warm as normal.

 

[Robby]

I work outside and this has been one of the hottest spring & summer seasons here in Mobile.No only hot but wetter than I've seen in the 17 years we have been here.We actually have 6 seasons here and we are now entering Hurricain Summer. It runs from Aug 15 to Oct 15.It should be nice by Oct 1.Oct and April are nicest months here.

 

[q240z]

q240....and you are located where???

District of Columbia, USA...Center of the Known Universe!

 

[REBrueckner]

"Friends in the SF area of CA tell me they have had a cool summer, not as warm as normal."

I heard a CA report that crops were not ripening due the the cool weather there....
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You may recall that once again earlier this year NJOAA/NASA climate "experts" called for a very active 2010 hurricane season....for maybe five or seven years in a row...I've lost track as they have been forecasting "disasters" over and over and over.......Anyway here is the actual record so far: scroll down a little to see the easy to read graph...


http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/

In the link WATTS UP WITH THAT, the climate warming freaks at NOAA predictably cling to an active hurricane season as of August 5, 2010.....they may be right, finally, but it won't have anything to do with their forests nor their models... sooner or later it's likely we will have an active hurricane season and then expect a lot of WE TOLD YOU SO.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/...e-atlantic-hurricane-season-la-nina-develops/

This is what happens when "experts" vainly cling to climate models that have been proven politically popular but proved inaccurate by actual data over and over....it is NOT science....and useless for planning even a few months ahead.