Polar Vortex - Summer Edition

Tue: 84
Wed: 84
Thu: 84
Fri: 85

Should reach the lower 90s here in Tyler tomorrow after 98 today. Then mid 60s Wed morn should feel incredible. Rest of the week should be in the 70s to low 80s for high depending on rain coverage. (This is my personal forecast that I post on my weather page) Some record cool highs are possible. I love this very winter like pattern.
BTW this is a classic case of a piece of the Polar Vortex dropping straight out of northern Canada. Capital Weather Gang article on the topic

Mid 80s next few days in North alabama.

I've read a little bit of everything from it is a Polar Vortex, it isn't one, or it's possibly connected to the recent typhoon in Japan (I think).

80s in Sedona today.

High in the 70s for me the rest of the week in Flagstaff AZ.

Bite me.

bring it on!!!!! this weekend it was nearly 100 and it's usually 100+ for most of July and early August here.

The area of the country I really wish I could live had highs in the low 70's and lows in the low 60's. frick this heat. frick this humidity. frick all this manure getting spread all over the fields, it's been non stop with all the rain we've gotten. They've been spreading like crazy. Tenkiller's gonna be all sorts of fricked up soon.

Global Warming is the obvious answer

90'S. ALL DAY, ERRDAY. COLUMBIA RATCHET AS frick. 803, BITCHES.


Seriously, though, please send us some of your cool weather. I'm dying here.

I do not fully understand why this is happening how it is, but here is my non-expert analysis of the situation. The Pacific typhoon definitely is part of the reason, but those happen often in the summer and we don't get this result often. I think part of the reason is the North Pacific warm pool south of Alaska that has been present for the better part of a year. That has never been recorded as happening though our records on that sort of thing are pretty short. This causes abnormally high pressures off of the west coast of North America. The typhoon serves to pump up this ridge causing a ripple effect downstream allowing a chunk of Arctic air (the Polar Vortex) to plunge south. Along with the Arctic air a piece of energy from the Northeast Pacific have merged together and settled into the Great Lakes region. This system is what is called the Polar Vortex which is a piece of the Polar Vortex as the main Polar Vortex is ever present near the poles. If anything in the US is going to be called a Polar Vortex this would be one. Add in tropical air from the Pacific and Gulf and you have enough rain and cloud cover to combine with the modified Arctic air mass to keep temps abnormally cool.

Makes sense to me.

Clouds already billowing down here in SE Louisiana. Plenty of potential energy available. Luckily no sheer to mention (no tornadoes) but these storms once they fire ought to put on a hell of a light show.