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Election Day Forecast | Tuesday November 5th

Updated Election Day forecast now at under 300-hours. The vast majority of the Lower 48 will be rather quiet, but chance of a frontal boundary moving along the east coast and tropical disturbance in Florida. The precipitation looks to be all rain with mild temperatures.

The worst case impact to elections would be heavy snowfall or brutal wind chills. Not seeing any threat of either.

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High temperatures on Tuesday November 5th

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ECMWF AIFS 00z | Next 10-days | Height Anomaly

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Looking into week 2, significant troughing across the Western U.S. results in ridging across the Eastern U.S. Not much more complicated than that!

\u2014> Well above normal temperatures for early November east of the Mississippi.

Temperatures 11:30 AM ET

Coldest air in the Pacific Northwest with freezing conditions into northern Nevada.

Chilly in Seattle and Portland mainly in the 40s this morning.

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Overall the Lower 48 is 2\u00b0F above normal for October 24th at 11:30 AM.

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70s already across the Central Plains = 15-20\u00b0F above normal.

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Atlantic Tropical Update

Whatever was left of Oscar was entrained into a new extratropical storm near Bermuda with a cold front spreading into the Bahamas. No other areas being monitored in the tropical Atlantic by NHC for the next 7-days. However \u2026 by next weekend, we could have a tropical system (Patty) in the Caribbean.

Atlantic Satellite

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ECMWF Integrated Vapor Transport

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The ECMWF HRES does develop a large \u201cgyre\u201d over the SW Caribbean by Day 10. The overall pattern of enhanced easterlies through the Caribbean is similar between ECMWF and NOAA GFS. However, there is a significant difference in development chances with GFS being very aggressive. I think this is a long-standing problem associated with flow over the northern Andes that generates spurious vorticity in the southern Caribbean.

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Vorticity Animation with GFS 06z

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Watch as the vorticity is generated off Colombia and Venezuela and quickly ramped up into a powerful hurricane within 7-8 days, and then a northward track into the eastern Gulf of Mexico and Florida.

I think this intense development is unlikely as GFS has significant bias in generating and exploding systems in this particular pattern.

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Hurricane Kristy

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NHC 11 AM ET kept Kristy at 135-knots = Category 4 \u2026 but I think the storm has now twice reached Category 5 status based upon satellite imagery.

The maximum of T 7.5 = 155 knots earlier this morning, and currently at 7.3 \u2026 I suspect Kristy will be upgraded in post-season analysis if not bumped up later this afternoon at 5 pm.

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No threat to land \u2026 and it will likely come apart due to colder water and wind shear by Sunday.

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ECMWF EPS Forecast Active Tracks

Day 10: November 3

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EPS ensembles show some development signals < 20% in the western Caribbean by Day 10.

Day 13: November 6

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Quite a few members pop with TS/Hurricanes by Day 13. While not as aggressive as GFS forecasts, the EPS signal is significant and can\u2019t be ignored.

High Temperatures on Thursday

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Mild temperatures in the 60s now across the Great Lakes. Still 90s in the central Plains including OKC. 80s in Atlanta feel wonderful!

Low Temperatures on Friday

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Snowfall

15-day Ensemble Median Snowfall Forecast

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Mountain snow but nothing much east of the Rockies \u2014 way too warm through 2-weeks.

Probability of 1\u201d snowfall through 15-days

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Scant chances of 1\u201d of snow across vast populated areas of Lower 48 but noticing some more Lake Effect % showing up.

Precipitation 50% Percentile through 10-days

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Total Rainfall next 7-Days | NOAA WPC

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EPS | Weekly Temperature Anomaly

Week 1: October 24-30

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Week 2: October 31 - November 6

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Updated Election Day forecast now at under 300-hours. The vast majority of the Lower 48 will be rather quiet, but chance of a frontal boundary moving along the east coast and tropical disturbance in Florida. The precipitation looks to be all rain with mild temperatures.

The worst case impact to elections would be heavy snowfall or brutal wind chills. Not seeing any threat of either.

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