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Punishing blasts of potentially record cold will bring an early winter preview to millions of people in the central, eastern and southern U.S. over the next few days.
The core of the first round of cold will gradually shift from the north-central U.S. into the Great Lakes and Northeast Wednesday through Saturday, making it feel more like the middle of winter rather than early November in some places, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Jake Sojda.
As the cold sweeps east, some snow is also likely in portions of the interior Northeast Thursday into Friday. The heaviest snow should fall in northern New England, where some spots could pick up half a foot.
Possibly related: The sun has been blank for over a month now: http://www.sidc.be/silso/dayssnplot
(Score: 5, Informative) by istartedi on Thursday November 07 2019, @08:01AM (4 children)
California's rainy season is set to begin at least two weeks later than normal. The Kincade fire would have been mostly extinguished by rain in a normal year, or perhaps not even started. The ridge pushes the jet stream north, making California warmer and dryer. The east gets the wrap-around flow and more cold air. If this pattern persists, California will be back in drought soon.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 07 2019, @03:47PM (1 child)
The touted out of drought rain came too early in the season, and while the volume looked at in spreadsheet terms was correct, its actual on the ground effect was heavily diminished. It only took a week or two after their announcement that 'California is out of the drought!' for the ground on my property to be bone dry again (slightly less than last year, since it didn't visibly crack.) The long and the short of it is that gardening was unsustainable again this year, and everything from grass to privets turned brown. Even NATIVE trees were shedding their leaves multiple times over the year due to the severity of the lack of CONSISTENT rainfall. Ground doesn't magically absorb all the water that pours down on it. Without a consistent month to month volume of water, or a more comprehensive canopy to hold it in, the environment will dessicate immediately after the water stops flowing, not unlike the Oklahoma dustbowl of decades past.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 08 2019, @03:47AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 08 2019, @03:19AM (1 child)
> The east gets the wrap-around flow
Yeah, we got some wet snow in Buffalo NY today, but nothing stuck to the roads. Temps about freezing, not really that unusual for this time of year. Supposed to be in low 20F range tonight, we put heavy sheets over the 5 x 10 foot raspberry patch to see if we can save the fall crop (summer crop was great this year). These plants are pretty hardy, I think they have a chance.
A couple of weeks ago we had a light frost in my immediate area (other parts of the region didn't have this frost). The result is that we have beautiful bright fall color for leaf peeping here, while my friend up north of Niagara Falls (20 miles) has drab colors this year.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday November 08 2019, @04:35AM
Soak the plants and surrounding soil with water. The freezing water can keep the temperature around the plants just high enough to get them over if it isn't too far below freezing for too long.