March feels like January in a cold, stormy, soggy nation.
By Joel Achenbach Joel Achenbach Reporter covering science and politics Email Bio March 3 at 6:00 AM The weather people claim March 1 is the start of “meteorological spring.” But March 1 arrived Friday and this alleged, conjectured, hypothesized meteorological spring was a no-show.Much of the continental United States is cold, wet and stormy, with the notable outlier of South Florida, where it has been summer for many weeks.
Officials in Lee County, Ala., reported that at least two people had died during the severe weather, in which pounding winds, rain and tornadoes downed power lines and damaged buildings. Search and rescue teams were scouring the damage Sunday evening for other possible deaths or injuries. The District remained in its familiar, awkward position Sunday, close to the rain-snow line, with every possibility still on the table — rain, sleet, snow, a major snowfall, a dismaying wintry mix, or just a mild dusting that nervous school officials would surely decide was apocalyptic. On Sunday, the Capital Weather Gang reported that “precipitation types may alternate.”
The quirky behavior of the polar vortex is caused by a dip in the jet stream and is associated with a warm air mass that pulsed north into Alaska, said Jason Furtado, an assistant professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma.“I think people this year are less prepared for this kind of cold wave, and especially in some areas where things started to bud and blossom,” Furtado said.
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