The anomaly described in yesterday’s letter does not appear to have strengthened today. The whole thing has actually shifted toward the east by maybe fifty or a hundred miles, and so has the large but weaker cool anomaly that can be seen on its border to the west. There is still a minor heatwave in effect because of the size of the anomaly, but nothing like the recent one in Siberia that thankfully has ended. There is one more unusual thing connected to this anomaly that is showing up for the first time on today’s 500hPa Geopot map, and worth pointing out. It is pictured here in Eastern Russia as an island of deep red that is fully separated from the regular deep red zone farther to the south:
This small feature does not seem to reflect anything unusual about the air temperature at that spot, which is strange, but it does correspond closely to a small circular zone of relatively high surface air pressure, as seen on this map:
There must be a physical reason for this connection, which I have not been able to imagine, but there it is. Something else about the high-up pressure island is just as interesting, maybe not as a complete surprise, but this is the first time I have seen an actual occurrence. In spite of its small size this figure exhibits enough of a pressure gradient between dark red and light red to create all the conditions that are required for the generation of jetstream velocity winds. You can see the actual effect on this next map, in the shape of a little horseshoe:
I have previously described similar winds on small islands broken off from both the blue zone and the green zone, but not the big red one. More than ever before, we now know exactly where to look for the location of all jetstream wind pathways, every hour of every day. They certainly do not meander independently. Rather, they are all locked in to specific pressure gradients, no matter where those gradients have been created. We can see where by glancing at any 500hPaGeopot chart that is up to date. When something changes the gradients the pathways change with them, and if certain of these gradients are missing so are their streams. If we then can find out exactly what is causing gradients to change we should know a great deal about what to expect from the jet pathways that call them home. Armed with this key information I plan to continue with my project that seeks to explain and demonstrate the complete operation of a major temperature feedback loop, one that is conceivably not yet known to science. The positioning and strength of jetstream winds is a critical part of the operation because of the direct way by which their presence meditates the outcome.
I think this loop may have been overlooked by science because it has the general appearance of something that only Rube Goldberg could have invented, using Star Wars as an inspiration. All of the details that have been gathered so far have been explained in these letters. My focus now is to keep on searching for more examples to use as evidence and also on exposing potential weaknesses that would need to be resolved. The bulk of evidence used to date has been derived by making observations of The Climate Weather Maps, which is perhaps not a scientifically orthodox way of doing things. That said, if the material substance of the maps is accurate, and has a story to tell, and if the story offers a viable explanation of extreme events like the recent Siberian heatwave, I can think of no good reason to ignore it.
Carl