Shifting East

[Andrew Khan]

As normal trends in the past show, usually the severe risks shift east by at least October if not September. Why has this yet to occur? I am aware of the unruly being of nature.

 

[Brett Adair]

Maybe the La Nina pattern we are currently in?

 

[Patrick Marsh]

As normal trends in the past show, usually the severe risks shift east by at least October if not September. Why has this yet to occur? I am aware of the unruly being of nature.

Persistent troughing in the eastern Pacific and western US. Now, why this has occurred is open for debate.

 

[Steve Mirsky]

As normal trends in the past show, usually the severe risks shift east by at least October if not September. Why has this yet to occur? I am aware of the unruly being of nature.

Persistent eastern ridge says it all.

 

[Patrick Marsh]

Ahhh, the meteorological conundrum: What came first? The trough or the ridge...

 

[Andrew Pritchard]

As normal trends in the past show, usually the severe risks shift east by at least October if not September. Why has this yet to occur? I am aware of the unruly being of nature.

If you're aware of the "unruly being of nature", then you need not even ask the question.