A Change of Seasons

I know it's been awhile...a long while to be sure.  It was about 10 days prior to Harvey wreaking havoc in the Houston area that I last blogged about the weather and weather there was!  Harvey, Irma, Jose, and of course Maria.  But for us, the weather was rather benign.  In fact, when the temps are above norms in October, well, in my humble opinion, that's kinda nice!  Here is the last 6 weeks to date in terms of temps...

But I believe the month ahead of us will slap us hard in terms of a polar opposite temperature anomaly...the onset of winter is already starting with a nice late October winter storm across the north country of Minne-haha tonight...take a look...

On the other side of the pole, the snow-cover is being laid down a bit earlier than normal as well...much of Russia (collusion...sorry, I was just associating freely!) is covered with the arctic blanket.

So with all of that said, we have an air mass that started on the other side of the pole that will be digging deep into our continent...take a look!  Those blue-purple-green colors indicate a serious change in the weather; a rude awakening to be sure with the anomalous warmth we've experienced for the last several weeks!

And as for how dry it's been, that's about to change as well as a tropical disturbance looks to phase with this digging energy from the northlands and the proverbial "pour gasoline onto a fire" will bomb a storm off the east coast this weekend...take a look!  Not a total phase as the little tropical piece lays off to the SSE...if that would entrain...well...watch out!

And the heavy rains overnight Sunday into Monday...the graphic below is only a 6 hour snapshot of precip!

Here's the total precip through early next week...

Ok...'nough said...just trying to get back a feel for this blogging thing as I've had many ask "where's the posts"?  So with this changing pattern, I thought I'd clue in my loyal readers...and as always...thanks so much for reading!

I've listened to a nice quantity of quality music this evening and I'm not sure what I should include and share with y'all...but I did mention Maria earlier.  And for my bud, Chuck, I'll embed this recent classic from Carlos...enjoy!

And enjoy your Halloween Penn State over OSU weekend!

Smitty

AA:  Getting colder and wetter for the foreseeable future!  And I do me colder...and wetter!