Weather It Is (A Wave and a Crash)/

Good Afternoon:

The weather has been quite pleasant -- and no one is complaining. Yet, it is hard to beat the calendar and he calendar says we're headed towards January.

The past month was a bit odd weather-wise.  We had frequent rain, but not particularly very much.  The weather was more like late fall in NY than early winter in Israel.  This was in response to a split in the jet stream, where the southern stream was active but unable to tap the cold air associated with the northern jet stream.

This may be changing towards late next week -- perhaps just in time for my next (isn't it always?) birthday.  The split pattern should end and a deep trough will form over western-central Europe and move  -- like a wave -- eastward. It appears that some rain should occur with this system as temperatures dive down into the single digits.  Just how cold we'll get remains to be seen, but right now it looks most probably  to be just rain.  We'll need a bigger wave and bigger crash on our shores to bring more than this.

Shabbat Shalom,

Barry Lynn