Weather News: Jan 05, 2009

Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979
Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close.

Wx Risk Weather Update
The weather models are beginning to resolve the fight between the huge vortex in the Yukon and Alaska and the huge Greenland block ( which is

Wx Risk Weather Update
Tuesday operational GFS is fairly consistent in the 6 to 10 day but has a significantly different solution in 11 of 15 day as it breaks

Next Year to Be Among World’s Five Warmest on Record
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Next year will be one of the world’s five warmest years in a century and a half of record-keeping, according to a forecast by the U.K. Met Office and the University of East Anglia.

Wx Risk Weather Update
The main issue of contention in the energy weather business these days is January 2009 and what conditions will be like across most of the Conus. The consensus forecast -- from MDA Earthsat