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05/12/2023, 8:27 am EDT

RRR Pattern Continues to Shape Medium-range Forecast

The chart above identifies the warming of the atmosphere by a warm water zone known as a semi-permanent marine heat wave causing a semi-permanent upper-level high-pressure ridge (red) known as the ridiculously resilient ridge. The location of the ridge for each of the past 9 years is identified.
05/08/2023, 5:15 am EDT

Heavy Rains for the Great Plains and Europe Ahead

Presence of an upper trough across South-central Europe much of the next 2 weeks entraining buoyant low-level atmosphere moisture from the much warmer than normal western Mediterranean Sea causes a large area of heavy rain in the latest GFS 15-day forecast.
05/02/2023, 1:47 pm EDT

Great Plains Heavy Rain Indicated by 12Z GFS

At midday, the 12Z GFS unloads heavy to extreme rain on the core of the U.S. drought zone located in Kansas and vicinity. Additional heavy rain is forecast for the Southeast U.S.