Hey all, I am a weather forecaster in Upstate NY and the news just gets worse.
You can blame it all on the jet stream. The Polar Front jet to be exact. Usually around this time of year the PFJ is moving in a very steep up and down wave across the US causing cold Arctic air to move down from Canada. Those cold temps cause all of our weather systems riding along the PFJ to drop frozen precipitation. Unfortunatly the PFJs pattern lately is very zonal or flat. This is allowing mild Pacific and Gulf air to keep invading the north and is keeping the temperatures way up. Remember that good dumping of snow we got back in November early December. The jets wave was hangin 10 back then and brought us the super sweet snow. Now we just need to pray for that pattern to return before it is to late! BTW, I am forecasting a high of 46F/8C for my station just east of Lake Ontario Wednesday afternoon. I guess we will just have to start from scratch with the snow now
