When you have a central pressure of 946 mb any normal pressures will seem "high".
On Tuesday, November 6, 2012, Robert Lynn wrote: > I don't doubt it - Rossby waves (meanders in the polar jet stream) do > sometimes create locally anomalous behaviours - like the Russian heat wave > of a few years back, or in this case a blocking high over Greenland. They > are responsible for most extreme or long duration persistence in weather at > temperate latitudes. > > > On 6 November 2012 05:08, Jeff Berkowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually, I can attest that the National Weather Forecast Discussion for > Hurricane Sandy did indeed describe this ridge of high pressure over > Greenland. This was as it was moving north past Florida and the Carolinas, > several days before it made (second) landfall in New Jersey. They called > this area of high pressure "anomalous" or "extremely anomalous" or some > words to that effect. > > Jeff > > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Robert Lynn < > [email protected]> wrote: > > People who get rich off of climate change research (academics and green > fund-raisers/politicians) like to claim that climate change leads to more > 'extreme weather' like hurricanes, droughts etc, but they only get away > with it because of short human memories. Actual data shows that there is > no upwards trend and the last few years have been very quiet. In fact for > hurricanes the cycle appears to follow the 60year Pacific Decadal > Oscillation, and if anything the trend is downwards with increasing > temperature: > http://regmedia.co.uk/2012/03/29/global_hurricane_energy_1974_2011.png > > http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2008/01/28/warming-reduces-landfalling-hurricanes-again/ > > > > On 5 November 2012 11:06, ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hurricane Sandy grabbed matter and energy from the atmosphere around her. > Climate change gives her more energy to consume and she formed an > accretion disk around her orbiting particle center. She was organized by > the mass and angular momentum of the orbiting particle and was steered into > the location near Albion New York where she first entered the Earth and > shutdown the Erie Canal for repairs this summer.. As she had a "closed > string" orbit at sub, relativistic speeds, she attracted other particles > orbiting in the area and they all followed string interactions according to > M Theory, resulting in some of the beautiful photos of ice halos and > rainbows interacting before she arrived, all aligning/interacting with the > more massive Sandy Particle. > > Stewart > Darkmattersalot.com > > On Monday, November 5, 2012, Axil Axil wrote: > > The first clearly recognizable consequence of global warming has > insinuated itself into our lives, and as we have all feared these > consequences will not be good. > > This weather feature is called the “Greenland High” a stationary dome of > high pressure. It has taken up residence over Greenland and this weather > pattern was the guiding force that steered and strengthened the > nor’easter/hurricane Sandy forcing it ashore onto the Mid-Atlantic > shoreline. > > Another nor’easter is due to form in the middle of this week and be guided > by the jet stream once again up the eastern sea board. > > This year’s winter will be abnormally cold due to the diving jet stream. > Any low pressure system moving across the country will be redirected south > then north following the same storm track as Sandy: These weakly repeating > nor’easters will dive into the Southern states, where they will pick up > moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, next they will strengthen off of the > coast of the Carolina’s and then proceed up the East Coast, dumping rain > and wind, then when the cold of the winter sets in, snows in prodigious > amounts. > > For those who live in the eastern third of the US, you will be in for a > hard and snowy winter, so get your snow blowers and emergency generators > serviced and in good working order, get in a lot of wood in for your stoves > and enjoy an extended case of cabin fever. > > If you own a place on the Atlantic shoreline, you will be in for some > major problems and loss. The weakly p > >
