Well above avg. temps. to continue this week. We'll have some fog late at night into the morning hours through Thu. We finally have some potentially significant rain on the horizon. A storm system now in the Southwest U.S. & Southern Rockies (see the satellite image below) will move ever so slowly eastward the next few days before finally "turning the corner" late Thu.- Fri., accelerating & bringing showers & a few t'storms to the First Coast. This looks like a period of decent rain for NE Fl./SE Ga., & we could see a few strong storms. The storm will be a fast mover, so the weekend -- while cooler -- looks o.k. There continue to be signs of a wetter, colder pattern as we move into Feb.
From NASA:
The sun erupted late on January 22, 2012 with an M8.7 class flare, an earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), and a burst of fast moving, highly energetic protons known as a "solar energetic particle"
event. The latter has caused the strongest solar radiation storm since September 2005 according to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.
NASA's Goddard Space Weather Center's models predict that the CME is moving at almost 1,400 miles per second, 5 million miles an hour) and could reach Earth's magnetosphere – the magnetic envelope that surrounds Earth -- as early as tomorrow, Jan 24 at 9 AM ET (plus or minus 7 hours). This has the potential to provide good auroral displays, possibly at lower latitudes than normal.
Click here for a model animation of the flare....click here for more info. from Space.com.
A major winter tornado outbreak occurred Sun.-Mon. from Arkansas to Mississippi & Alabama. Storm surveys are ongoing but at least one EF-2 occurred in Arkansas & at least one EF-3 in Albama (north of Birmingham). This is roughly the same area hit so hard last April. I'll post links to the N.W.S. surveys once they're completed. Little Rock, Arkansas N.W.S. has a detailed synopsis of the severe storm set-up -- click here.
