University Daily Kansan
Bitter cold not expected in coming weeks
Monday, February 4. 1980
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By DON MUNDAY
Staff Reporter
The nation's semi-official ground hog, Puxsuntshau Phil, this weekend predicted six more weeks of winter weather, but that it shouldn't be anything like last winter.
Joe E. Raglman, professor of geography and meteorology, said Friday that weather patterns this winter have indicated that two cold spellies are likely in the coming weeks.
There are several reasons why meteorologists are predicting a milder February, and most of them involve the properties of the jet stream.
"The jet stream is a high-altitude stream of air强 enough to influence surface winds. The jet stream can bend the jet stream can bend in higher directions, creating areas of higher and lower elevations."
THE JET STREAM, over the at 80 mph on a weekend over weekend in the United States, so that it created areas of higher pressure, indicating cleaner skies and warmer weather for the jet stream.
"The jet stream changes more slowly than surface weather," he said. "Surface air masses can zip right on, through it."
generally takes weeks for the jet stream to change from one type of pattern to another."
In the severe winter of last year, the jet stream remained stationary, keeping the Midwest in subfreeze temperatures for several weeks, Eagleman said.
"It was unusual for it to remain stationary for so long," he said. "During the last three winters, though, the stream established itself to give us one type of weather—cold."
ANOTHER INDICATION of milder weather to come is the width of the jet stream itself. If the stream is not very wide, he said, higher winds will result.
The jet stream this weekend was spread out fairly wide over the central United States, although it tightened up off the East Coast.
"Because we're passive through what is ordinarily the地部 of the right year now, the chances are growing less and that the jet stream will establish itself like it does."
"We can expect some blasts of cold air," Eagleman said, "but I don't think they'll last as long as they did last year."
When it does snow, he said, it will not stay on the ground for long. Instead, indications
The Lawrence area experienced this over the weekend, with Saturday's snow and ice partly melted by yesterday.
are that temperatures will rise above freezing within several days after a snow.
Temperatures reaching into the 50s and 60s during parts of January are not unusual, he said.
"People to talk about the January thaw, when the cold, snowy December weather would be broken by some 50- to 60-degree weather in January," he said of "the ice on the ground" that moves it on the ground to have a thaw, even though the temperature got high enough.
BUT THE predictions of a mild winter are long range, and specific weather occurrences cannot accurately be forecast more than a couple of weeks in advance.
"Any forecast beyond two weeks is not made with a great deal of accuracy by anyone," he said.
JET STREAM PATH AS OF YESTERDAY
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