500mb Geopotential Height & Normalized Anomaly really is a great geeky weather visualization of "where is the extreme weather"
(Red = much warmer than normal, blue = much colder than normal = heat dome in California, and very cold weather centered over Ilinois in this Monday forecast, I believe).
@ai6yr
My parents wintering in Arizona aren't quite ready to migrate back to the PNW for the summer. Mom was under the impression it'll just be a blip ("technically it's still winter!") 😂
Anyhow, I put a bug in their ear about the heat a few days ago, so hopefully they're ready for it and the normal weather forecasts have more of an impact when finally arriving.
@me_valentijn @ai6yr
geeky interjection:
Depending on the exact locales involved, it looks like some careful route planning could have your folks riding an isobar all the way from AZ to the Pacific Northwest.
*assuming they completed all their travel before Monday's 18z prediction changes, which seems unlikely in both meteorological & human-behavioral terms
AI6YR Ben
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