Day 269: High Pressure Dominates
This evening’s surface chart depicts a large high pressure in control of much of the United States. This comes in the wake of the upper level low that is mentioned last night and the night before. An exception to this is along the east coast were a stalled surface front and area of low pressure are causing widespread showers and thunderstorms.
Programming note: Tomorrow begins the WxChallenge, a collegiate forecast challenge. I hope to resume more substantive posting as this begins.
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Patrick Marsh is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oklahoma's School of Meteorology. He earned a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Physics (cum laude) from the University of Arkansas in 2005 and a Masters of Science in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma in 2007. In addition to working on his doctorate, Patrick serves as the National Severe Storms Laboratory Liaison to the Hazardous Weather Testbed where his research interests lie in working with operational forecasters, data mining, data visualization, and all things high-impact weather. For more about Patrick's work, check out his complete CV!
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