May 3, 2014

Today the skies finally cleared up a bit and scattered cumulus clouds have moved in. Winds are northwest at 10 mph coming all the way from northern Canada's low pressure system in Hudson Bay. The polar jet has become very erradict, but it's still merging with the subtropic jet on the east coast still creating a lot of water vapor off the coast. Weather has been relatively nice because of this shift in the jet pattern. A long stationary front now sits west of us as you can see from the current surface map.The low that sat on top of us for almost a week has moved east bringing precipitation to the northeast coast. Barometric pressure has risen to 1010 mb because of the cold front that pushed through Wisconsin yesterday bringing high pressure. Temperature is currently 55 F while dew point is sitting at 29 F. This makes air stable with an LI of 10 and KI of 16 which means we won't be seeing any rain for a little while. That's all for now!