Expect one last cool blast before Memorial Day
Hello my friends! It’s been a little while since we last spoke via Shore Local, and I apologize. Life has been crazy. Starting the new TV station is very time consuming but we are muddling through it. Anyway – our weather has been downright crummy. Fiddle sticks Mother Nature, fiddle sticks! Is there light at the end of the dull, dark tunnel? Yes, there is. First, why have we seen such cool and unsettled weather? It’s because of something called the North Atlantic Oscillation. It has three phases…positive, negative and neutral. We’ve been negative. This means high pressure building across Greenland allows the jet stream to buckle underneath it and deliver cool air into the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. With the jet overhead, we’ve seen multiple storms move through bringing our rainfall back well above normal.
The Oscillation will start to trend back toward neutral and toward the negative phase as we go into the next couple weeks. By this weekend we should see a surge of warmth. Upper 70s to lower 80s by Sunday? We tap into a southwest wind and the humidity will start to climb too. I don’t believe we will go directly into summer… just yet though. There will likely be one more blast of cool right before Memorial Day weekend and THEN things look to be on the up and up. That’s good news going into the “unofficial start of summer”. Stay tuned!
“Nor’Easter” Nick Pittman
Chief Forecaster
South Jersey News TV (SJNtv)
