On 5/18/2011 5:26 PM, Solo wrote:
'jsbrake[_2_ Wrote:
;771719']So, my local radio station told two weather-person jokes
yesterday
that I thought I'd pass on to give you all a groan...

1)
Q: Where do the weather forecasters go for a drink after work?
A: The iso-bar

2)
Two meterologists crashed in an airplane and each broke an arm and a
leg... their friend called the hospital to find out if they can do
four casts.

Don't blame me... I'm just passing them on!
- John


It is still better than the weather we have in Quebec, these days...

For anyone who feels even the slightest compulsion towards weather geekdom
(which I figure a measurable percentage of RAS-er's might!), the weather
pattern centered nicely over the continental US
(http://www.nws.noaa.gov/sat_loop.php?image=ir&hours=24) is not only highly
unusual (in my geekly experience which I blame on the repetitious satellite
loops from the late [lamented?] "AM Weather" formerly of MD Public TV of the
1980s), but pretty darned - ahem!- *cool* in that: 1) it's stable
jet-positionally-speaking, which leads to 2) both stationary (and - the
eastern one - expanding over the past few days) jet-induced lows which
presently are driving essentially all the local weather over the US and
southern Canada.

You guys in the NE US been noticing the direction your thunderstorms have been
traveling recently? Only once before can I recall a - longer amplitude -
stable pattern driving weather systems/bands of T-storms all the way from West
Virginia to the Front Range of Colorado. So while much of the continent's
soaring weather is presently dismal, we can enjoy it for its relative rarity's
sake...probably at least until Saturday!

Bob W.