December 27, 2008

Batter Up!


Well, let's take a break from all the action here in the Lower 48 and take a trip to the Russian outback. I've tinkered with some graphics here to show you the totally weirdo jetstream coupled with an equally weirdo wad of water vapor. This is a very unusual pattern, folks. I'm not sure how this one will play out as I can't recall ever seeing such a strange pattern before. It looks unusually wet, quite large and possibly ready to set up a very cold snowy pipeline out of Alaska. Weird things like this often change as quickly as they appear so I won't worry too much about it right now. It's kind of like having a rattlesnake along your far back fence. As long as the snake stays out there, no one's too worried. It's only when the snake comes onto your patio that you call Pa-Pa for the shotgun. If there was ever a coiled snake pattern sitting out along the back fence of the Russian regions of Siberian--this is it!

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