Death Ridge coming!

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Like a bad name from a futuristic character from mad max. These meteorologists have the best names for scaring people.

https://www.wcnc.com/mobile/article...area/275-aed8e0c4-1049-4489-b04a-bac10c9e4199

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Move over, polar vortex. There's a new weather phenomenon taking hold of Charlotte.

Enter the heat ridge. And it could lead to the hottest May temperatures the Queen City has felt in over 60 years.

"This (Wednesday) will be the coolest day we're going to see for a long time and I'm not kidding," said chief meteorologist Brad Panovich. "Probably the coolest day we see until Autumn."
 
Cowboy said:
And it could lead to the hottest May temperatures the Queen City has felt in over 60 years. "This (Wednesday) will be the coolest day we're going to see for a long time and I'm not kidding," said chief meteorologist Brad Panovich. "Probably the coolest day we see until Autumn."
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Could be

Possibly

May be

Probably.....
 
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Looks like that global warming ship sailed a long time ago.....reckon destroying the environment with carbon emissions is nothing new, seeing as how most of those dates are >60 years ago.

Or maybe, just maybe, nature is cyclical.

Oh...and f* a buncha heat.

I hate summer.
 
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As a meteorologist myself (no not on TV, most TV mets lack sufficient education in meteorology), the term "death ridge" (And for the winter "Polar Vortex") are old and well used within the field of meteorology itself. The "death" is in relation to the prevention of thunderstorm development and normally dry conditions that occur under the ridge that lead to short-term rainfall minimums. That said, the media gets ahold of these "cute" terms and blows them out of proportion. Note, the article was not written by Panovitch and it was probably written by some left wing pos Carolina journalism grad whose main intent is to drive traffic to the webpage to sell add hits. Panovitch's "quoted" comments are not out of line, it is the rest of the article that is not good. We deal with a lot of clients that get stirred up by these junk media articles and we have to calm them down and bring them back to reality.

Regarding the ridge there is also a term used within the met field called "the ring of fire" this is used colloquially to describe the development of thunderstorms along the periphery of the ridge where conditions are more favorable for thunderstorm development.

Regarding the education of most mets, they are highly educated MS is an average education. The TV guys are typically less educated, with only a few college degreed in meteorology TV mets per TV region vs the majority that are "journalism queens" that want to work up to the head deck and the stations don't have the money to pay the educated mets. Attrition was 75% when I went to school.

TV stations including the weather channel exist solely to sell commercials and they don't give a flip what it takes to get you there or whether or not you are fully informed with the correct information. Thus they use these types of outrageous "teasers" and "cute" words to get your clicks or viewership. Greg Fischel of WRAL used to joke if his producers had their way, they would have him in the middle of July say "Will it snow later this week? Stay tuned to find out." It was a major peeve of his.
 
tod0987 said:
As a meteorologist myself (no not on TV, most TV mets lack sufficient education in meteorology), the term "death ridge" (And for the winter "Polar Vortex") are old and well used within the field of meteorology itself. The "death" is in relation to the prevention of thunderstorm development and normally dry conditions that occur under the ridge that lead to short-term rainfall minimums. That said, the media gets ahold of these "cute" terms and blows them out of proportion. Note, the article was not written by Panovitch and it was probably written by some left wing pos Carolina journalism grad whose main intent is to drive traffic to the webpage to sell add hits. Panovitch's "quoted" comments are not out of line, it is the rest of the article that is not good. We deal with a lot of clients that get stirred up by these junk media articles and we have to calm them down and bring them back to reality.

Regarding the ridge there is also a term used within the met field called "the ring of fire" this is used colloquially to describe the development of thunderstorms along the periphery of the ridge where conditions are more favorable for thunderstorm development.

Regarding the education of most mets, they are highly educated MS is an average education. The TV guys are typically less educated, with only a few college degreed in meteorology TV mets per TV region vs the majority that are "journalism queens" that want to work up to the head deck and the stations don't have the money to pay the educated mets. Attrition was 75% when I went to school.

TV stations including the weather channel exist solely to sell commercials and they don't give a flip what it takes to get you there or whether or not you are fully informed with the correct information. Thus they use these types of outrageous "teasers" and "cute" words to get your clicks or viewership. Greg Fischel of WRAL used to joke if his producers had their way, they would have him in the middle of July say "Will it snow later this week? Stay tuned to find out." It was a major peeve of his.
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You're just jealous because you probably aren't good enough for TV.

Kidding....

Thanks for the insight. I used to follow WRAL but their forecasts have really gotten worse and worse over the past couple years. When it comes to severe weather, I follow North Carolina weather authority and weather risk out of Richmond.
 
Chuckman said:
You're just jealous because you probably aren't good enough for TV.

Kidding....

Thanks for the insight. I used to follow WRAL but their forecasts have really gotten worse and worse over the past couple years. When it comes to severe weather, I follow North Carolina weather authority and weather risk out of Richmond.
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haha I did work with Brian Baily of WNCT for sports in high school and it wasn't my cup of tea. Only about 20% at most, of all mets are on TV, but make up 90% of day to day interaction with the public.

yea The Fish was a good, well educated, well spoken met but no longer there. Maze is good but does not push back against the producers like Greg did. We lost WRAL here and I would still keep track due to Greg on WRAL but now that he is gone. Adios to that liberal pile of crap.

The facebook pages etc are worse than the Weather Channel. I could go on about those pages, but tied up with severe storms out west right now.
 
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tod0987 said:
As a meteorologist myself (no not on TV, most TV mets lack sufficient education in meteorology), the term "death ridge" (And for the winter "Polar Vortex") are old and well used within the field of meteorology itself. The "death" is in relation to the prevention of thunderstorm development and normally dry conditions that occur under the ridge that lead to short-term rainfall minimums. That said, the media gets ahold of these "cute" terms and blows them out of proportion. Note, the article was not written by Panovitch and it was probably written by some left wing pos Carolina journalism grad whose main intent is to drive traffic to the webpage to sell add hits. Panovitch's "quoted" comments are not out of line, it is the rest of the article that is not good. We deal with a lot of clients that get stirred up by these junk media articles and we have to calm them down and bring them back to reality.

Regarding the ridge there is also a term used within the met field called "the ring of fire" this is used colloquially to describe the development of thunderstorms along the periphery of the ridge where conditions are more favorable for thunderstorm development.

Regarding the education of most mets, they are highly educated MS is an average education. The TV guys are typically less educated, with only a few college degreed in meteorology TV mets per TV region vs the majority that are "journalism queens" that want to work up to the head deck and the stations don't have the money to pay the educated mets. Attrition was 75% when I went to school.

TV stations including the weather channel exist solely to sell commercials and they don't give a flip what it takes to get you there or whether or not you are fully informed with the correct information. Thus they use these types of outrageous "teasers" and "cute" words to get your clicks or viewership. Greg Fischel of WRAL used to joke if his producers had their way, they would have him in the middle of July say "Will it snow later this week? Stay tuned to find out." It was a major peeve of his.
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So you’re saying that while last year was wet, this year will be likely be hot and dry?
 
JimB said:
So you’re saying that while last year was wet, this year will be likely be hot and dry?
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No the article is misleading, again poorly written. It has mixed a relatively short term issue (nearly stagnant High pressure ridge) with a longer term weather pattern. The ridge will not last all summer, just a couple weeks at most before breaking down.

That said current outlooks for the upcoming 3 month period do have the eastern US in good chances for experiencing above seasonal high temperatures as well as a wet period.

The below image shows the probabilities for June, July, & August against the seasonal average.
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Ring of Fire?!?! Johnny Damn Cash is gonna come out of the sky?!?!

Sounds legit—print it!!!
 
Looks like a great time to visit AK.
 
Wait..... Soooo. The news outlets who are supposed to report what is actually going on in the world are somehow being bound by committees/"boards" of the conglomerate of money makers that bought them out for profit and are "randomly" not trustworthy/easily disproved.....

My shocked face:eek::rolleyes:
 
JimB said:
Looks like a great time to visit AK.
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Hell no! I’m ready to napalm every grass field around here due to gnats. I hear they’re insufferable in Alaska during the summer. And mosquitoes.
 
9outof10mms said:
Hell no! I’m ready to napalm every grass field around here due to gnats. I hear they’re insufferable in Alaska during the summer. And mosquitoes.
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Everything is relative, in AK if the mosquitoes carry you away it’s a good year.
 
9outof10mms said:
Hell no! I’m ready to napalm every grass field around here due to gnats. I hear they’re insufferable in Alaska during the summer. And mosquitoes.
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Last year when we moved to our new house the gnats were everywhere because the company watered the sod about 8 hours a day. It took three pest treatments and winter to get them out of the house and yard.
 
My Grandmother always said, "don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see".....

I go to the National Weather Service and draw my own conclusions.... Better probability of being right....
 
Bailey Boat said:
My Grandmother always said, "don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see".....

I go to the National Weather Service and draw my own conclusions.... Better probability of being right....
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Ditto on both statements.

I used to use www.intellicast.com but they folded and it went to WeatherUnderground or something. Don't like their interface nor their predictions. NWS is all I need now.

I do believe in local knowledge and wish some of the Piedmont meteorologists stuck to the science more than the fame so we'd have some good local perspective. For instance, I doubt someone in another region who's never worked/lived here understands our strange winter dynamics where snow from the north fizzles out but rain from the south turns into snowmageddon.
 
Bailey Boat said:
My Grandmother always said, "don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see".....
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And she said that before computers and Photoshop. I suspect the percentage of what we see that we can believe nowadays has dropped well below half...
 
9outof10mms said:
I do believe in local knowledge and wish some of the Piedmont meteorologists stuck to the science more than the fame so we'd have some good local perspective. For instance, I doubt someone in another region who's never worked/lived here understands our strange winter dynamics where snow from the north fizzles out but rain from the south turns into snowmageddon.
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This is the reasoning behind how the NWS is laid out with 122 offices throughout the US that only forecast for their warning area.

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Weather around here is never terribly different year to year, and May has been hot as dog's balls since I popped out of my mom. I think I've heard yankees say "Ahhh my God, do you guys not have spring here?" about a quarter of a million times in the past decade (I know, but I don't have enough property to bury all of them); Panovitch is likely catering to them.
 
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