Accuweather.com- 4/25/13, Joe Lundburg
In a follow up to Monday's post, I thought I would toss out a couple of other items of interest as it relates to the easing of the cold, stormy, snowy weather pattern we've been stuck with for a long, long time. Two main things jumped off the page to me this morning in terms of the big picture, and while they won't necessarily mean we flip a switch and go to summer, they do portend a much warmer pattern overall.
The first of these is the slow but very noticeable retreat of the jet stream. Look at how it appears across the country this morning:
The disturbance seen over Missouri is helping to drive a potent cold front south and east. After reaching the low 80s in Houston yesterday, essentially a normal day for this time of the year, temperatures dropped into the upper 40s early this morning, and the afternoon, with limited sun, will barely reach the lower 60s - nearly 20 degrees below the norm.
There's a nice surge of warmth ahead of the front in and east of the Appalachians today after a several-day stretch of below-normal temperatures, but the front will blast through in the next 24 hours. In the process, much cooler air will once again push eastward over the mountains and into the East, resulting in a significant cooldown tomorrow.
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