Fires, Floods, and Heavy Snow: an Extreme May Weather Situation
Dr. Jeff Masters / Wunderground: A highly unusual jet stream pattern is bringing a bizarre combination of heavy May snows, flooding, extreme fire danger, and well below average severe thunderstorm activity to the U.S.
A strong “blocking” high pressure system has set up over Greenland, blocking the normal west-to-east progression of weather systems. A truly unusual situation has developed where the blocking high has forced a low pressure system near Greenland to move southwestwards to a point just off the New England coast. The blocking high has also forced an unusually sharp southwards dip in the jet stream over the Central U.S., where all-time May snowfall and cold temperature records are being set.
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Tags: 2013, California, Flood, Greenland, Jeff Masters, Jet Stream, New England, Precipitation, Snow, Snowstorm, United States, Wildfire, Wunderground
Categories: Environment, Extreme Weather, Flood, Impacts, North America, United States, Wildfire, World News
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