Weather It Is (The Drought Settles In)

Tonight and tomorrow a storm system will advance across the Mediterranean while a cold winter trough drops southward.  Temperatures will rise ahead of the low pressure, but it will remain breezy (but not as windy as today) for the Jerusalem Marathon.  Temperatures will rise even more on Shabbat as the low nears, and will feel quite warm for early March. 

The low and the trough will phase together on Sunday.  If this were "winter," this would be the perfect set up for a winter storm.  Yet, the atmosphere is not acting like winter, but more like the weather in late March when storms approach our area, but seem to lack good lifting and a good moisture source.  Hence, the storm approaches, and then sweeps quickly eastward with perhaps most of its rain shield remaining to our north.

Hence, the dry period of the last two weeks will likely become a dry period of three weeks, even though the weather won't feel like spring-- which is a bit strange.  We'll hope that a rainy period can return by mid-March.

To those running: good luck in the Marathon and Shabbat Shalom to all,

Barry Lynn