The current weather patterns for this week are in a wavy pattern. Even slightly
chaotic!
As of June
5th, still seeing mild snow in the
higher elevations. Wax on.
Translated from French by Microsoft
Significant medium-term uncertainty with very divergent scenarios from 13 June. The weather forecast becomes very complex beyond that. Highlighting of the bad reliability with the "spaghetti" T ° maps of the air mass. More information > >
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500hPa Geopotential Elevation Anomaly (Cold Drop Demonstration) - June 9-14, 2019 - GFS / TropicalTidbits Model
A cold drop is a closed altitude depression, that is to say cut off from the general circulation from west to east marked by the jet stream that separates the polar air from the fresh air. As it passes, the vertical thermal gradient (the temperature difference between soil and altitude) increases, creates instability (showers, thunderstorms), and brings fresh air.
Schéma d'une goutte froide - Info Météo
Instability and fresh air, a cocktail that will dominate the next few days on our territory. We should mainly observe temperatures below seasonal norms (except extreme south-east), all under fairly frequent rainfall in almost all regions.
Temperature anomaly and rainfall accumulation - period from 9 to 13 June 2019 - Model GFS / ClimateReanalyzer
For illustration, here are the forecasts for the day of Tuesday, June 11, potentially the poorest of our week to come: frequent showers, sometimes punctuated with thunderclaps and a few wind squalls ... all under particularly cool temperatures for a mid-June (we will struggle to approach 20 ° C, even near the Mediterranean!).
Weather forecasts assessed - Tuesday 11 June 2019 - Weather-Cities
But a cold drop is the real obsession of weather forecasters. It produces a large amount of small-scale phenomena particularly poorly apprehended by the models. A small change of shape or position can change everything about the weather at home. And if the situation seems to be wedged until Wednesday / Thursday, the trend is much less clear, or even totally anarchic beyond this date. In the second half of the week, the evolution of this cold drop is not at all surrounded by all the digital models. This causes major divergences in the forecast, and offers a multitude of sometimes opposing scenarios.
As an illustration, here is a comparison between the two main models (the European ECMWF, and the American GFS) in terms of air mass temperature (here at a reference altitude of 1500m). If the two match up to Thursday, June 14 included (0 ° difference), a significant divergence appears as of Friday, June 15 (difference of 5 ° or even close to 10 ° C between the two numerical models for Wednesday, June 19 ).
Air mass temperature differences (altitude 1500m) between ECMWF and GFS - June 9-19
, 2019 - WxCharts
An even more ambiguous proof of this uncertain trend: the so-called "spaghetti" cards. Take the example of a spaghetti card on the same temperature parameter of the air mass at 1500m. Each color line indicates a precise temperature of this air mass (green = 5 ° C, yellow = 10 ° C, orange = 15 ° C, etc.) according to 20 initial scenarios (GEFS set models).
The goal is simple: compare these 20 scenarios. When these scenarios provide the same time, these spaghetti lines are confused or very close to each other. When the scenarios diverge, these lines end up intertwining, and highlight an uncertainty. Again, we then distinguish lines of similar temperatures until Thursday, June 13, before the total blur ...
Spaghetti map of air mass temperature (1500m altitude) - 9th to 17th June 2019 - GEFS / WxCharts assemblers
To summarize: if the reliability of forecasts remains correct until Wednesday 12 or even Thursday, June 13, the uncertainty becomes very large or even maximum beyond this date. From warm, sunny weather to cool, cool weather, and vice versa, our forecasts could unfortunately fluctuate drastically for a few more days ...
In the face of these regular changes in forecasts, or in the face of the frequent indications "to be confirmed" or "very uncertain" published on our sites, we advise you to consult (or re-consult) this article dedicated to the good reading of the weather forecasts (
click here >> )
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