Out On A Big Limb Here

OK, we're going out on a Big Limb here and we taking a saw with us. We're cutting the limb behind us! If you've never tried this trick, I highly recommend it. Put yourself someplace where you can't get back--and then cut the limb off. Wow, it's fun!

Anyway, we think the high pressure is dead--toast, DOA, history. Yeah, it's still here--today in Idaho Falls was majestic--surreal, actually. But today was the high water mark of this puppy. It's outta here. So what if the jetstream is bent backwards? So what if chinook winds are toasting Alaska? So what if people think happy times are here again? It's time for change--dramatic change--and change is coming to your local neighborhood theater soon. I'd expect this high and all of its baggage to be out of here within two days, possibly earlier, but no later than mid-week. Then, the zonal jet will come back and kick anatomy. We've been saying the water vapor blobs are stacked up--you can see them above.

The Big Question Mark (no pun intended) is "what's happening to the polar airmass?" If, as we suspect, the polar air is just as cold as it was prior to this high pressure regime, then it will reassert itself very soon. If some voodoo magic made all that cold air disappear, then we will apologize and you can get your money back for reading this blog. (Your check is in the mail! Bailout money, of course.)

But we don't suspect that any kind of known voodoo has made that frigid polar airmass disappear. We suspect it will be back with a real attitude. And we suspect that the snow events of recent weeks will be just a "tune up" for what's in store.

Yeah, this is Big Limb stuff. When you go out on a limb this big and start saying the sky is falling, you've got nothing to gain and everything to lose--credibility-wise. But, hey, if we didn't do it this way, it just wouldn't be any FUN!

Enjoy the outcome & Cheers!