Weather With Enthusiasm!

This podcast is a repeat of the previous one but with added sound effects. However, in some cases the sound effects are too loud. The podcast that was put on after this one is also a repeat of the previous one but with softer sound effects.

This podcast discusses the intense heat that is currently occuring in the upper Midwest, the stretch of hot and humid days forecast to happen on the east coast, the flash flooding storms for Mid-Atlantic on Tuesday and Wednesday, the temporary diminishing heat in mid to late week week for Baltimore and the good possibility of returning heat after that for mid-atlantic areas. Heat in a somewhat diminished form will likely overspread much of the Midwest this week. There is a good possibility that this heat will intensify eventually, perhaps by next weekend and this is discussed in this podcast. This podcast compares the peak temperatures in many states which are being affected by this heat with each other and compares it to a few of the Southern states. The excessive heat in the desert Southwest is included in this podcast. A brief discussion of Chicago forecast is mentioned along with Minneapolis, but the main focus is Baltimore. Minneapolis and Baltimore were chosen to be the main points of interest, but there is more time spent on Baltimore because of its complexity and because Baltimore will be the most Northern city on the East Coast where long term Heat and humidity has the highest chance of staying. This podcast doesn't have sound effects. If you are interested in listening to this podcast with sound effects, listen to the next one or the one after that

Much of this podcast speaks about the remarkable heatwave taking place in North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Southern Canada. In this Podcast I include northern cities that have either already reached 100 or are about to. One such city is Winnipeg in Canada. ( I accidentally said Winnipeg, Wisconsin.) I an additional discuss two 95°+ cities in upper Midwest that also have some humidity. Excessive heat warnings over the desert Southwest is discussed as well. Another topic is the heatwave on the East Coast that will be developing after today's thunderstorms move through. The torrential rains in the south is a brief discussion.

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This is from February. I found it funny!

Transcription of the begining:Good afternoon everyone. It is Tuesday, May 4 And we have a weather map that to me looks a little bit complicated to explain, but nobody else feels that way so I'm just gonna go right for it, we have with the St. Louis National Weather Service says that there's a piece of energy over in Minnesota, which they're calling the northern piece of energy another piece of energy is over in the northern Texas and Oklahoma area, and the one that the St. Louis National Weather Service says we'll be affecting their area, the most, and perhaps really the only thing that will be affecting that area is going to be the low pressure system in northern Texas and Oklahoma. Now if you look at a weather map, you'll see that there is a low pressure system up north. There's another low pressure system down south and they're connected by a front, and the one up north is 29.6. And that is exactly what the marine forecasts are saying that there's low pressure of 29.6 So we'll be moving across the lake Michigan and Lake Huron and Lake Ontario today. And then, they don't discuss the one down in the south, because that is not relevant, exactly to the boaters on Lake Michigan, except the Detroit National Weather Service, I think it was the Detroit one did point out that the southern low pressure system is going to increase the wind speeds on Lake Michigan. So there will be some type of an interaction between the two, and therefore they did make mention that there are two of them. And really it's the one down south that's going to be producing a lot of heavy rain, severe thunderstorms for many areas, especially places like an Alabama and Mississippi, Tennessee has reported already severe thunderstorms as of this morning, places rendre tornado tornado watches until 4pm Other places under a tornado watch until 6pm places in Louisiana, Texas as well, Alabama, Mississippi, and there's even some areas in the Carolinas that have already seen, severe thunderstorms today, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this was the big shocker to me, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is included in the severe thunderstorm potential, and it's just shocking to see it go all the way up there just for almost no reason at all it just goes up there, then it goes right back down. It's pretty far up north in, if you ask me, But, especially considering that many of these other cities like St. Louis, Missouri. I think they are in the heavy rain potential but I don't think they are in the severe thunderstorm potential. If they are, it's very very minor to 5% Chance within a 25 mile radius, but some of those places down in the middle like in Arkansas and Mississippi and Louisiana are in the enhanced risk area which is already a 30 or even 35% chance of seeing your weather within a 25 mile radius. Now, this is unique. This storm system is unique for this year, because usually the severe weather threat so far this year has been large hail, in every single one, this one, there is a severe weather threat of large hail, especially when you go down to the Gulf Coast, all the way down there, but the main threat is going to be the damaging winds and the frequent cloud to ground, the ground to score is cloud to ground lightning. In fact, they're even using a different language, some of the national weather services are no longer saying frequent cloud to ground lightning. There have been warnings issued where they're saying continuous cloud to ground lightning this that's something that occurred in the Texas thunderstorms last week, and that is what's going to be occurring in these storms as well, they already did occur in many places in Tennessee and Memphis National Weather Service issued some mornings over there and there's places in Kentucky as well, Alabama, Mississippi, we've already mentioned there's some areas in Arkansas, New Orleans, Louisiana is on the border of a marginal risk to a slight risk so I guess you could say, They're about 20% chance or 15 20% chance or so of seeing as severe weather within a 25 mile radius, but they are considered one of the major metropolitan areas that are going to be affected by this severe weather. All of that is in response to this 29.6 storm system, which is a mediocre storm system, but it has ample Gulf moisture some of those National Weather Service's summer use the language, ample Gulf moisture I did not get a chance to see what the dew points are going to be, I would assume the dew points will be 70 degrees or warmer, but who knows, that's considered Gulf Coast, humidity, but this time of the year even dew points in the 60s, because it certainly produce heavy rain very heavy rain and it's going to provide the necessary energy for these thunderstorms to rapidly develop in some of these cities, Baltimore Maryland also they're going to be very close to record highs today, Baltimore Maryland Washington DC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as well. They're going to see high temperatures ranging from the low 80s to the low 90s and record highs are in the low 90s in for Washington DC the record high for today's 93 degrees record high for Baltimore's 91 degrees, it's going to be very, very close and then this evening, that's when they have a severe thunderstorm potential for that area as well. But the main thing is really just going to be heavy rain and thunderstorms. There could be a severe thunderstorm it but that's not really part of the program for them. Exactly. So that's out in the mid Atlantic area. Now, in regards to the 29.6 over here. That is the low pressure system that affected us yesterday and brought the cold front through our region. In fact, both low pressure systems are connected by a front. And not only that there's actually another low pressure system and deep south Texas in the front really goes all the way from there to to up to here and by Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. So there's, it's really one large front, which many are not necessarily calling it a strong front, but in Florida, they are going to be calling this a strong cold front. By the time it reaches their area, which will be. I have to think about that, it would be, would it be tomorrow or Thursday tomorrow or Thursday, but I have to look into that again, temperatures in Orlando Florida area are going into the mid 90s Today, in fact, some places in Florida might hit 100 degrees today. I just want to make a little correction there I think the highs are going to be between 95 and 96 and hit indexes. I actually didn't. This was surprising to me. They said he didn't exceed will be in the upper 90s Possibly 100 degrees, which is not common this time of the year. That's a shocker to me, I don't understand it, it's Florida. Come on, you aren't. Isn't it always humid there, so I don't really understand how that could be but if you have temperatures in the mid 90s I would think it's a given that you're going to have a heat index around 102 degrees, but apparently not. The Miami National Weather Service says that they're going to have a very interesting scenario taking place later in the week. They find it interesting, but I find it to be a classic Miami setup as that strong cold front gradually approaches the Miami area, there's going to be a high pressure system from the on the Caribbean area, which I think is connected to the Bermuda high, which is going to push this front, back, up north, or at the very least it's going to slow it down. Eventually I think the front will move through Miami, but it's going to slow it down and that's really the classic. Whenever I look on the weather map I see a stationary front just north of Miami, and the cold air just doesn't quite make it to Miami. Now, I've been seeing those high temperatures really around 86 degrees every day around Miami but if you look up on the National Weather Service website, they are saying that parts of Miami will go into the low and mid 90s today. Finally, maybe that's been happening all along day maybe these apps are not accurate. Other places in Miami will be in the upper 80s Now we do have an interesting scenario taking place there is a wildfire, which is in the Miami County area, and they said visibility will be greatly reduced this evening, maybe even today because of smoke all over the place. So that's something that people might want to be aware of. I don't usually associate wildfires with Miami, so I don't know if this has been going on for a long time but this is the first I've ever heard of this so usually I think of California in places out there, getting the wildfires and that places like in the Miami area but they do have a massive fire taking place over there, and temperatures again, upper 80s to low to mid 90s for the next couple of days, we have here. There's just too many low pressure systems, it's, it's just enough. We're gonna have here in Chicago, after this 29.6 low pressures and gets out of here, which is going to be happening over the course of today we're going to see those clouds dissipate. Where was that going to happen earlier tomorrow, I, but we're going to see the temperatures, tomorrow we're gonna have abundant sunshine tomorrow and Wednesday is going to be the one dry day this week where temperatures go into the 60s, inland, but temperatures in the 50s closer to the lake probably even mid or upper 40s at the lake. Winds are going to be from the north and there's going to be a lake component, an easterly component can be the wind so we will have a lake breeze. And speaking of a lake breeze, as we speak, there is northwest winds in Chicago right now. There's also northeast winds taking place, up front, developed right along the lake front, and that front has decided to push inland, and it's being slowed down by the northwest winds. But despite its slowness, it is making progress and it was supposed to overtake midway at around 2pm today. And then it's supposed to overtake O'Hare by 4pm today, but the National Weather Service says it's possible.....