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).

#CAwx #ILwx

Oooh, look at the forecast for Fryday... err.. Friday. Good luck Arizona and Nevada. Death Valley, too.

Forecast on Friday for Death Valley: 107F.
(in March, mind you).

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=36.4608515&lon=-116.8656343

#CAwx #DeathValley

@ai6yr I'm glad not to live in a place where a mere 104 is insufficient to qualify as "and hot".