If robots are not yet a common component of everyday life, this may at least allow us to play astounding virtual reality video games in which simulated robots are major characters. Spring is a season full of surprises with a bit of everything and whilst the sea is still cold, seeing people soaking up their first proper sun of the year is a common sight. The actions of people and the decisions we make now — to modify the land surface, to alter the atmosphere — have repercussions for the present and future. We will try to answer that later on, but right now I want you to look towards the Southeast US. If you’re now wondering why that didn’t all occur with such a favorable negative NAO, just look at the Pacific and there’s your answer. Make all preparations now and do not wait until the last minute. Taking a look up towards Greenland, we find a very favorable last 60 days. This said, lets take a closer look at just why you need to know the most current and direct of FedEX department phone numbers for your business.

The first thing you need to do is to form a culture within your firm based on the shared responsibility of everyone to keep the office clean. In October 2012, we had very below normal snow cover for the first half of the month. If half of the month of October had below normal snow cover, one would expect the first half of the following winter to have a positive Arctic Oscillation (a.k.a. As many of you may or may not know, snow cover anomalies in Siberia during the month of October can help predict the following winter’s temperatures over North America. The blue colors begin the freezing line, and all areas north of that first light blue layer are in the preferred snowfall potential region. This storm system would be laying down some solid snowfall in the region, as does happen with any winter storm. EST (1630 GMT), but was forced to stand down due to unacceptable weather conditions.

It’s very possible that any snow cover put down by the January 3-5 winter storm, as well as the January 5-6 clipper, may intensify this cold blast further than models are predicting. One big component I was counting on to really bring in the cold for the nation was Siberia. This dislodges the tropospheric version of the polar vortex, and seemingly splits it into two bodies; one just east of Greenland, and another in the East US. In the afternoon Day 2 update, the Storm Prediction Center added a high risk area for east Nebraska and west Iowa. The European model is showing a very strong storm system present in southern Indiana at Hour 240 (Day 10), with the minimum pressure just below the 990 millibar mark. Eventually, a cold front will latch onto this system and pull up the dry line to initiate storms tomorrow evening. Well, we did get some better shots of cold air, but the pattern was (and still is) too progressive to entrench any solid cold air.

My precipitation analog image (top) turned out to be a solid failure. Modelling for Predictive Maintenance falls under the classic problem of modelling with imbalanced data when only a fraction of the data constitutes failure. And the core does not deal with the critical element of data assimilation, taking all of the sources of weather information to create a physically consistent initialization, or starting place, for the forecast. Although the January data isn’t in yet, I have a feeling above normal temperatures will be across the board once again, further hurting my analog years’ forecast. I did make a note of it on my final winter forecast (click here), but did not emphasize it enough. The above image shows the European model ECMWF’s forecast of 500mb geopotential height anomalies, for the evening of Wednesday, January 7th. Note how we see strong high pressure forcing its way into the Arctic from the Bering Sea. The negative height anomalies will be helped out by strong positive height anomalies in the western Bering Sea and into the northwest Pacific.