Tue, Dec 23, 2003
by ANN Columnist Scott C. Dennstaedt
Are you feeling an
overwhelming sense of deja vu lately? Well here in the US, the
weather patterns are becoming all too predictable in last month or
two especially in the eastern third of the country. Not to rain or
snow on your parade, but it appears the same pattern is likely to
persist through then end of the year before we get a bit of a
break.
"We're all getting a bit tired of this," said Scott Dennstaedt a
certified flight instructor and meteorologist in the Baltimore
area. "If it is not the rain, snow or sleet, it's the two days of
gusty winds, wind shear, moderate turbulence and icing."
About every three to four days, a new upper-level disturbance
gets ejected out of the Pacific Northwest, drops down into the
Midwest and begins to gain strength as it moves into the
southeastern US. Then the low pressure develops at the surface and
turns the proverbial coastal corner and wraps itself up as yet
another nor'easter through the Mid-Atlantic and New England states
leaving behind strong northwesterly winds.
The Centennial Flight celebration on December 17th was plagued
by this unfortunate active weather pattern. "Ironically, weather is
what drove the Wright Brothers to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The
Wright Brothers faced these same weather challenges during their
flight testing," Dennstaedt elaborated. "The big difference today
is that meteorologists saw this storm brewing over a week in
advance. I think safe to say that Wilbur and Orville would have
taken advantage of The Weather Channel if it had existed at the
time."
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