If there are major storms, I think the worst is yet to come.
Can you elaborate for those of us less literate in wind/pressure maps!
Do you think the low over the hot Chukchi is going to make a storm in 10 days?
Random forecast mages with cryptic and foreboding sentences rustle my jimmies.
that would be somewhere between 950 and 980 hPa at see level while not only the strength will be important but the direction, temperature and the run-up over how much open water as well.
pressures below 950 are rare and would make it strong hurricane level and above 980 it would be a cat-1 hurricane level that i consider a strong but not a major storm, my take on it, science and others may see this differently, no problem.
Conversion is easy. 1000 hPa are equal to 1000 mbar, which is equal to 750 mm of mercury in a barometric column, which is 0.987 of the average atmospheric pressure, which on global average is 1013 millibars or hectopascals
Further nobody made a forecast, neither random, nor cryptic or anything of that kind. it was a simple statement IF there is a major storm, THEN the worst is yet to come, no mention of when how and which low, hence the remark was superfluous.
finally a nice goody for those who like nice images, beware the shadows of blues in the lower left part of the arctic ( ESS / LAPEV / CHUKI )
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