All, Being a meteorologist, I can't help myself here, but the potential exists for an early "heat" wave in the eastern 1/2 of U.S beginning Wednesday and lasting into next weekend(April 3-4).
A very large and anomalous high pressure system is projected to set up off the southeast U.S coast by Wednesday/Thursday next week and bring strong southerly winds across the Gulf into the Plains/Midwest Wednesday/Thursday and to the northeast/Middle Atlantic Friday to Saturday. This is a classic "Bermuda" High pressure set-up. Very unusual warmth is expected if these projections hold true. I could see widespread 70s and 80s all the way north to the Great Lakes and possibly even to New England. This would certainly mean a major early migratory push with many species arriving very early relative to median arrival dates. The first major influx of neo-tropical migrants would be seen into the southern and even central U.S. check out the following website for 925 mb(few thousand feet AGL) wind projections for late next week.... http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/model/gfs180hr_925_wnd.gif or a loop. http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/model/displayMod.php?var=gfs_925_wnd&loop=1 Dave Nicosia Johnson City, NY -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
