Cold in Most of the US, Warm in the West
Dec. 22nd, 2022 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerIt's been in the news the past few days how most of the US is suffering under colder-than-normal temperatures, with high winds and chances of blizzards. I've seen & heard lurid headlines like "Once-in-a-generation storm!" repeated numerous times. Extreme weather in most of the country is not the same as all of the country, though. Where's the weather comparatively calm? Out in California, for one!
This morning I was looking for a good weather map to convey the differences in weather between West, Central, and East. I thought it would be a color-coded temperature map. I couldn't find a good one of those, but instead I found this map (above). It shows where the weather is warmer than normal and where it's colder. The data format and color gradient here make it really obvious who's having nice days, relatively speaking, and who's got a special form of misery to deal with.
It now seems fortuitous that Hawk and I decided not to travel/couldn't find reasonable bookings to travel over the holidays. Flights are likely to be snarled across much of the US, roads will be dicey, and the weather will be worse than usual. Oh, we are traveling; but instead of flying somewhere thousands of miles away we're driving to Southern California. I.e., we're going from the most orange area in the map above to the one-step-slightly-less-orange area.
This morning I was looking for a good weather map to convey the differences in weather between West, Central, and East. I thought it would be a color-coded temperature map. I couldn't find a good one of those, but instead I found this map (above). It shows where the weather is warmer than normal and where it's colder. The data format and color gradient here make it really obvious who's having nice days, relatively speaking, and who's got a special form of misery to deal with.
It now seems fortuitous that Hawk and I decided not to travel/couldn't find reasonable bookings to travel over the holidays. Flights are likely to be snarled across much of the US, roads will be dicey, and the weather will be worse than usual. Oh, we are traveling; but instead of flying somewhere thousands of miles away we're driving to Southern California. I.e., we're going from the most orange area in the map above to the one-step-slightly-less-orange area.
