Updraft: December 2, 2008 Archive

Revised outlook

Posted at 6:38 AM on December 2, 2008 by Craig Edwards

On Sunday afternoon, the Climate Prediction Center released an updated outlook for December 2008 for the Nation. They are seeing a trend of a persistent northwest jet stream over the eastern portion of the country. Current long range outlook is looking very similar to the Farmer's Almanac prediction for December.

Revised Outlook for December

Remember this is not a magnitude of variance but a confidence level in the deviation from normal.

CE
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I-90 snow corridor

Posted at 4:29 PM on December 2, 2008 by Paul Huttner (2 Comments)

Snow advisories blanket the I-90 corridor

The song sounds familiar.

It seems as if for the past two years we've been talking about snow systems passing south of the metro and blanketing the I-90 corridor and then blasting southern Wisconsin. Another Clipper will lay down 2 to 4 inches overnight and into Wednesday morning from Sioux Falls to Worthington to Rochester. Here in the metro we may get a dusting to an inch or so, especially the farther south you live.

Snow advisories for southern Minnesota

We basked in the warm sector ahead of the system today. Bank thermometers flashed 47 in Redwood Falls and Canby this afternoon. The trailing cold front will remind us it's December again tomorrow and for the rest of the week with highs in the 20's.

Our chances for snow may increase next week in the metro. But so far I don't see any whopper Gulf Storms or Panhandle Hookers on the maps. At least not yet.

Also you can track the infamous ISS tool bag and the space sataion in the night sky this week.

ISS & satelltie tracking

PH

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