Monthly Archives: May 2020

Picking up from where we left off yesterday, something really big is going on in the atmosphere of the Northern Hemisphere, and it is happening rather quickly. It seems that each day more of the effects become visible on one … Continue reading →

Here is my “map of the day,” representing a global measure of the altitude of a single amount of air pressure, 500 hPa (or mb). This measure is roughly half as strong as the average amount of pressure for all … Continue reading →

The big warm anomaly we looked at yesterday is still there, and is now being fortified by a third major stream of high-flying PWAT having a source in the South China Sea.  The anomaly’s hottest spot, up about 20C, is … Continue reading →

The massive warm anomaly in western Russia (and beyond) that I wrote about on May 7 is still there, and still has a really hot spot toward the north that has a reading about 20C above normal.  I picked up … Continue reading →

Today let’s focus on the Precipitable Water weather map, the one that looks exactly like a can of worms, or maybe a work by Jackson Pollack when he’s in a bad mood. There is an unbelievable amount of information on … Continue reading →

On today’s weather maps we are getting a wonderful demonstration of the power of the pattern of differences in high-altitude air pressure to significantly influence the pattern of anomalies in Earth’s air temperatures at the surface, which will be displayed … Continue reading →

Every day, when I am ready to study the weather maps, the first thing I want to know is where the day’s highest temperatures are found, and who lives there.  Inevitably I will see areas of some size that are … Continue reading →

The theory I have been talking about developed after I became curious to know the reasons for the large regional temperature anomalies that show up every day on the Weather Maps, and why their sizes, shapes and locations keep changing … Continue reading →

In yesterday’s letter I hopefully found words that provide the clearest expression yet of an underlying theory about the principal cause behind the wild swings in daily temperature that we all experience. I don’t think anyone has done this before, … Continue reading →

Yet another revision for the heading of my principal topic of discussion.  I want the wording to give the clearest possible summation of the most essential factors that come into focus, which calls for some bits of improvement.  The latest:“The … Continue reading →