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Next, let’s take a look at the Significant Events for the month of February. Click to view larger view. <\/p>\n Next, let’s examine the 500mb Height and Anomaly map. When you look at the 500mb map, you can get a sense where ridges and troughs setup. The shades of red indicate ridging, while the shades of blue indicate troughing. Click on the map below to bring up February of 2011. Next let’s compare the two.<\/p>\n When you examine February of of this year to last year, there\u00a0are some differences. There was more ridging over the West Coast into Central Canada.\u00a0 Over the Southeast US, ridging was stronger last year to this year.\u00a0 Overall, there was more ridging aloft over\u00a0various areas of North America compared to last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n Something extra I want to include this report and futures that I’ll do is provide\u00a0some statistics for the following\u00a0telleconnections for the month of February were the following: PNA was mostly positive for this month. AO was mostly positive for this month.<\/a> SOI (Determines the strength of El Nino and La Nino), which we are in\u00a0a La Nina phase was 2.5.\u00a0 La Nina is on the weakening phase.\u00a0<\/p>\n Next, let’s take as we move from\u00a0February to\u00a0March\u00a0of last year.\u00a0 Notice how much ridging took place over the Southwest US to Eastern US.\u00a0 The only area where height falls or trough setup was the Pacific Northwest.\u00a0 This pattern last year was very active with numerous severe weather, especially torandoes, large hail and high winds over southeastern parts of the US.\u00a0 <\/em>\u00a0Check out this report from last year. Click here…<\/a><\/p>\n So, that pretty much will do it for February of 2012. For a complete report for this month, head over National Climate Data Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good Evening Everyone, Its that time again. Let’s take a look at February of 2012. The first image shows what happen globally with regard to weather hazards. If you click on the image below, you will able to see it much larger. Next, let’s take a look at the Significant Events for the month … <\/p>\n
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\nNAO was mostly positive for this month.\u00a0
\n<\/a>– Out of the 29 days for this month, there were only two\u00a0occurrence\u00a0where values dropped below zero.\u00a0
\n– Out of the 29 days for this month, there were 27 occurrences where values were positive. – Lowest value was -0.220 and highest value\u00a01.023.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>– Out of the 29 days for this month, there were only\u00a05 occurrences where values dropped below zero.
\n– Out of the 29 days for this month, there were\u00a024 occurrences where values were positive. – Lowest value was -0.646 and highest value 1.577.<\/p>\n
\n– Out of the 29 days for this month, there were only\u00a02 occurrences where values dropped below zero.
\n– Out of the 29 days for this month, there were 27 occurrences where values were positive. – Lowest value was -0.220 and highest value 1.023.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n