The Western U.S., Plains, Midwest, Great Lakes and Mid Atlantic areas are in the midst of an active weather pattern this week. There severe weather of all types over much of this country. From 0° winter weather in parts of Utah and Idaho to 110° heat indices in Rio Grand Village Texas this podcast covers it all. From the blinding blizzards in the inter mountain areas of the northwest to the blinding dust storms in the deserts to the baseball size hail in Oklahoma and coastal flooding with tornadoes this podcast covers it all. The Midwest is in unprecedented consistency in humidity with warm nights for the month of October. Records are being broken daily. To find put about all this and more listen to this podcast. This podcast is delivered with feeling. There are also questions asked along with possible answers. Its 34 minutes of weather. If you are interested in the weather part ONLY then proceed to the following podcast which is 18 minutes shorter. It is common for there to be 2 minute songs at the end of each podcast. This podcast might contain advertisements.
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Good afternoon, everyone. It is Sunday, October 10. And we are in the midst of living through an unprecedented event for the month of October for us who come from the Midwest. We're actually going to this event is going to intensify as the week goes on. We have not dropped below 60 degrees yet this month of October, it's already October 10. Temperatures have failed to fall below 60. Now, why have they failed to fall below 60. So someone might want to say that. You know why? Because the daytime highs were around 80. Well, you know, if the daytime highs were around 80, then we would be talking about another unprecedented event for temperatures to be 80 degrees for the first 10 days of October. Certainly the temperatures were 80 degrees i We could hear why The overnight lows did not drop below 60. But when you look back last week, and you see those daytime highs are 68 degrees, 67 degrees, 69 degrees. And then you look at the overnight lows, 65 degrees, different 60 This degrees and 60 degrees, you have to wonder what is going on here, we have the nights are 13 hours long, temperatures start dropping even before skier even before sunset, the temperature start dropping, so we have 15 hours of dropping temperatures. So 15 hours of dropping temperatures we had one day the high was 68. The low was 65. But that was so okay, that doesn't. Let's say the high was 68. And that night, let's say it was 63. Let's just say I think it might have even been less than five degrees, you have five degrees within 15 hours. So we're talking about

Unknown 2:16
dropping one degree every three hours. So a third of the degree in our What can possibly be causing that a third of the degree in our? Well, the answer is the dew points, the dew points, the humidity, the humidity is tremendous insulation here in the city and the temperatures are just not dropping, they can't drop below the dew point and the humidity stays. Now why is there so much humidity and why so much consistency. I don't even know if we see such consistency in July. And we do we do see consistency in July. But even in July, we do get these Canadian air masses every now and then we're dew points dropped into the 50s. In fact, at the very end of July this year, dew points dropped into the 40s. But we've seen such consistency like this is just 10 days temperatures have not dropped below 60 Dew points have remained above 60 degrees.

Unknown 3:10
And the question again is why? So I've read in an article something very interesting. It's because the sun is so weak, the wetness of the ground is just not evaporating and significant pace and therefore the dew points remain high. It is the weakness of the sun that is causing all the warmth right now, we still have vegetation all over the place, the growing season is coming to an end for many places out west. Even in the southwest, hard freeze warnings are in effect. And the National Weather Service leaves off with the forecast discussion they sign off with. And this brings the growing season to an end. It's like it's sad words to hear. Because once the growing season comes to an end over there, and it comes to an end in the northwest Pacific and all around us to the west and eventually to the north. Then the humidity starts to die down once the humidity starts to die down over there, even though the humidity continues over here. But the jet stream is going to gradually start to move south. That's what's going to start to happen. There's a question, there's a major question. Is it cold? Because the Jets is the reason why we're warm? Let's say the reason why we're warm. Is it because the jet stream is above us? Or is the reason why the Jetstream is above us because we're warm. And they say nobody knows. It's like asking what came first the chicken or the egg? Nobody knows. And it's really kind of like a combination of the two. It's a combination of the two. So in a certain way I think it is the humidity that is keeping the Jetstream further north. In fact humid, humid air is lighter than dry air. I know it doesn't feel like that. But if someone hits a baseball and humid air that baseball is going to go much

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Further, there'll be more home runs, and human there, especially in Denver, Colorado, there's going to be more home runs humid air than in dry air. So the air expands, the air rises quicker, these air masses expand, they have the ability to push the Jetstream up north. And we are benefiting from that. I think that's what's keeping the Jetstream. Up north. It's the area where there's the starkest the strongest contrast in temperatures within the shortest distance within the compressed with the, there's some other word, but it's the, that's the area where the Jetstream is going to develop. So we are right now south of that area. In fact, even areas much further north of us still, the leaves are barely changing colors, they're still well into the growing season. And it looks like many areas in this country, especially to our west, and even our Southwest. We'll be seeing an end to the growing season this week.

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What makes this week even more remarkable than the previous weeks, is that a cold front from us potent storm system from the northwest Pacific, it's going to be moving through our area, in fact, two of them, and the dew points are still going to remain above 60.

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Like, even in July, dew points were dropped below 60. If you have these, if you know what's going on in the Pacific Northwest, these are blizzards. This is really cold air coming into the Pacific Northwest. Temperatures in Stanley, Idaho are dropping to three degrees for several nights, three degrees, four degrees, there's five degrees, it actually goes five degrees, four degrees, three degrees, something like that. We have temperatures, we already got down I think to nine degrees in some city in California yesterday. It was definitely the single digits. And I think the number was nine. And it was in the state of California. That was the coldest temperature in this country. That was clear progress, perhaps for the first time that summer. That doesn't happen in the summer. So I've seen 20s in the summer we see 20s Now, but on the other hand, we have Rio Grande village came in at 107 degrees yesterday, heating the high temperatures in Rio Grande village. And this is a different Rio Grande Village. This is not even the hot Rio Grande village, high temperatures today 103 degrees with heat indices of 110 degrees. We do not get that often even in the summertime, it is not common to have heat indices of 110 degrees no matter where you are. When you combine the temperature and the humidity together, maybe the real field temperatures can hit 110. But the heat index, even in Phoenix, Arizona, the heat index on that official chart, maybe it's meaningless for them, because the winds make it feel hotter and the sun makes it feel hotter. But the heat index is several degrees lower than the temperature at least for the first half of the summer. I think for the second half, the dewpoint start to creep up and they start to have a little bit of a heat index but that's when the temperatures start to go down. So we see tremendous heat taking place in Rio Grande village, Rio Grande, even the Rio Grande City also there's tremendous heat going on over there. So it's almost like we're in summertime manage. It's really weird. With we're living in an unpress here in Chicago. This is unprecedented, which that's another way of saying we are in record breaking territory. We broke the record we continue to break the record. And we even have a cold in a cold front in the month of October coming from a winter storm system, a winter like storm system. And there's going to be a second one too. And even then, forecasts continue to forecast overnight lows remaining above 60 degrees I think Thursday night 59 degrees. Finally a front moves through on Friday, temperatures are expected to go down to 50 degrees. Friday night it's going to take that it's going to take that for the temperatures actually dropped to 50 degrees in regards to the East Coast. All of this is vanishing before it reaches the East Coast. The cold air is pretty much vanishing before it hits us. I think Shabbos we're gonna start to feel it high temperatures on the high temperatures only in the low 60s.

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You know if we have low dew point air low 60s that it's gonna feel much cooler than what the mid and upper 60s felt last week and higher dew point air. We might start to feel the fall weather by this upcoming Chavez that's certainly a possibility. There's pictures that many National Weather Service's they're taking in the state of Maine, just taking a picture of the trees this year comparing it to last year and just you just see how the the colors are just not changing. It's like we're still in summer. They're start

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