Friday, February 27, 2015

Pineapple Express

It looks like the second Pineapple Express is headed for North America this year



Looks like another one is heading towards BC from Hawaii early in March. It is a ridiculously far-out forecast to attempt but this is how it may go:
A deep Low out of China has left Japan and is currently deepening at 1000mb. There is some compression on its eastern front despite the size of the adjacent anticyclone.


There is a large, fairly flaccid High (1028) that has been sitting 160 west to 160 east for some time. There is a similar system on the east coast separated by a col that is about 10 degrees wide (1016 at the saddle-point.)

The Low compresses the High which dissipates south as a second cyclone (1008) builds at 160 west by 1 March 2015. This system compresses at the expense of the easterly High (1032) at that time.


As the eastern High dissipates a thirds cyclone develops from the col, which is now lying NW from Hawaii at 150 degrees west. The two original cyclones break into three or four centres as the original breaks up over the Aleutians. This complex lies in a straight line running NW to SE.



Now that you are waiting for this system to trough out on the 4th or whenever the Norks have secretly infiltrated a new Anticyclone you should have been watching, fools!




This thing has swept in unnoticed under that Japanese storm and now taken centre stage in the North Pacific. But not to worry, here comes retired Colonel Captain America. Daft name I know but what can you do? Wearing his underpants outside his trouser for they are particular in the way they dress over there. (It is dealing with those inscrutable vassals that keep knocking them all to hell that does it.)



Springing up out of that Col the NSA had secretly inserted in Hawaii the new cyclone lies along the line NW from there and will protect the USA and its as yet unconquered allies. On the 5 March the prick infiltrates the Pacific in the direction of the Gulf of Alaska. Until finally... dan dan dan dan DAAAAHHHn!
It puts on the S.H.I.E.L.D: "Take that [kapow] and that [kapow2] and that [kapow3 you commie fuckers]" Wait, wrong film... Isn't this the one where he is fighting with his boyfriend on the roof of a train?


http://mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu/models/modelsanim.cgi?model=gfs&domain=npac&param=winds&orient=horiz&level=sfc&modeltime=2015022700&gfsanimduration=384&banner=mkwc&imgsize=Large&animtype=flash