Weather It Is (Purgatory)

Good Afternoon:

It's early March and we're inundated with dust.  Moreover, the same dusty weather pattern will continue for at least the next few days as dust is advected from Africa in the eastern Mediterranean. It seems like Purgatory out there!

Last week we spoke about the possibility of rain early in the week.  Unfortunately, it seems that this year that our possibilities for rain always fall on the light side (if at that).  The weather pattern evolves towards dryness, rather than the alternative wet "solution/forecast" in the long range ensemble.

If this is actually true, then the long range forecast is not representing some of the physical processes that encourage the atmospheric circulation to maintain our dry weather.  In fact, the storm that is approaching us today (with dust and some clouds) is forecast to retrograde back to the west over the next few days.

We still see a piece of the Azore's high breaking off and moving into a position off to our northwest (7 to 10 days out).  If this happens, then we may finally get a break with a late rain.  But, we might not.

Barry