Christmas STORM! and BIG PROBLEMS for the USA & Europe

We've got a major storm on the books for Christmas time & the size of the rain band situation is beyond alarming. Also, Europe is set to get hit with wave after wave after wave of brutal storms.

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God bless everyone,

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https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/snowy-south-fiery-west-whats-happened-our-moisture

Snowy South, Fiery West: What’s Happened to our Moisture?

A swath of high-impact snowfall—in some places, among the heaviest ever observed—made its way from South Texas to Atlanta on Friday, en route to the big cities of the Northeast U.S. (see below). Meanwhile, massive wildfires continued to scorch the landscape of Southern California, raging at unprecedented scope for December. It’s an odd juxtaposition, driven by a highly amplified weather pattern. Winds at the jet-stream level on Friday were blowing from the Canadian Arctic south across the Great Plains all the way to Mexico (see Figure 2).

Perhaps surprisingly, this pattern hasn’t produced many U.S. record lows, and few are in the offing for the next few days. The strong northerly jet hasn’t managed to pull a truly bitter Arctic air mass into the 48 states. Instead, the central and eastern U.S. are heading into a few days of consistent but less-than-brutal cold, while very mild, dry air continues to blow offshore across coastal California, stoking the fire threat.

Much of the nation is drying out—quickly
Last month was the 19th driest November in U.S. records dating back to 1895. Outside of the Northwest and the eastern Great Lakes, most of the contiguous U.S. was drier than average (see Figure 3 below), with large swaths of “much below average” precipitation. A mere 0.08” of moisture was observed in Lincoln, NE, from October 15 through December 7; it’s the least precipitation on record for that interval, in data going back to 1887 (the runner-up is 0.23” in 1976).

Over the two weeks ending December 5, the U.S. Drought Monitor showed a dramatic leap in drought coverage. The percentage of the nation experiencing at least some level of drought has vaulted from 15% to 24%. Leaps of this magnitude do happen, but they’re more common in spring and summer, when high temperatures, intense sunshine, and low humidity can quickly dry out the landscape.

In recent years, the concept of “flash drought” has gained enough traction that experts are now working to develop a precise definition. An article now in press at the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society argues that such a definition ought to hinge on how quickly a drought develops rather than on how brief the drought ends up being. In this light, the quick spread of drought conditions over the last several weeks is concerning indeed.

Texas goes from unprecedented flood to drought in just 3 months
During the last week of August, Hurricane Harvey stalled over the Houston, Texas area, dumping more than 20 inches of rain in seven days over an area the size of West Virginia; Harvey’s 60 inches of rain near Port Arthur were the greatest on record for any storm in U.S. recorded history. Despite this unprecedented deluge, portions of the region that received 20+ inches of rain are now in drought, according to Thursday’s U.S. Drought Monitor report. Houston and Beaumont/Port Arthur--which received more than 40 inches of rain from Harvey--are now considered “Abnormally Dry”.