First, I found this picture of the tornado path in southern and western Mass last week. You can clearly see the path of destruction from this visible satellite image. When I saw Sturbridge, MA, it reminds me when I was once driving home from Fenway when the traffic backup was so bad exiting the Mass Pike they simply opened all the toll gates to allow the flow of traffic resume....who said there is no such thing as a free ride!
Second, there is a major hurricane near North America, but it is absolutely no threat to land. This hurricane is west of Acapulco, MEX by 200+ miles and moving west by northwest. it will continue to weaken over the weekend from a Cat 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. The 2 graphics below show both the satellite imagery and the 2nd shows the projected path.
The white area is referred to as the cone of uncertainty. The red to the right shows the approximate location of Acapulco, MEX. I did that for you Mick.
Third, Texas, especially west TX, is in an extreme drought. As you can see, this is simply ugly and the commodity prices of beef and pork bellies will most certainly be affected by this extreme drought. This is nowhere close to the great dust bowl times of the 1930s. I might try to pull up some data supporting the fact that the 1930s were a real hardship in both financial depression and precipitation deficits! It was a real trying time in the great plains.
Well....I found this graphic and it shows that the greatest amount of max records in central Iowa were clearly in the 1930s. Dry land breeds heat and heat breeds drought.....positive feedback! It just keeps heating and heating.
And while it is hot and dry in Texas and the nasty fires rage in eastern AZ, they are still skiing in the Wasatch Mtns of Utah and hope to be until July 4! The graphic below shows the 200-300% snow pack still in the central Rockies. And with such a late summer, there will be less time for snow melt and before you know it, fresh snowfall will be adding to the snow pack. Don't tell Al Gore, but this is how glaciation progresses!
Lastly, my watch for Jeter continues as he approaches 3,000 career hits. With his lone safety last evening, he is now 10 away from 3,000! And that is for you "A"!
Have a great celebration of yet another academic year completed.....and with apologies to Pink Floyd...."shorter of breath, and one day closer to retirement!"
Enjoy the week's end!
Smitty
AA: A variety of meteorological musings. And DJ is only 10 away from 3,000!
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