NATIONAL ALERT FORECAST NOVEMBER 18th THROUGH NOVEMBER 23rd (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Sunday, November 16, 2014, 21:08

The arctic air mass remains in place for the Central and Eastern United States all the way down to Florida while the Western United States gets hit with multiple storm systems this week. Find out how your area will be by reading on.

Pacific Northwest – Storms are expected to return by the middle of the week, with a potentially stronger storm by Friday into some of the weekend. The overall outlook is for average temperatures with above average precipitation due to multiple storm fronts moving into this region, especially the Southern half of Oregon.

California – California will get multiple fronts moving into the area by the middle of the week, lasting through the end of the week. This will result in much above average precipitation for this time of year. The tropical jet will be aimed up from the west-southwest into Central and Northern California. This is where most of the storms will be. As for Southern California, it’s possible that tail-end charlie fronts moving through will bring rainfall down into the metro areas, but note the sub-tropical jet on the image below shows a west to east zonal flow over that area. This means that rainfall is likely, but a tropical connection is not going to be as strong. Still ,rain and storms will be possible in Southern California. Temperatures as a result will mainly be slightly above to above average for the average part of the state this week.

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