COLD WAVE OF JANUARY 8-1 1, 1962 IN MONTANA

• Main Author: R. A. Dightman
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Baffin Island; Pacific; Urd; Baffin
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.395.1772; http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/090/mwr-090-04-0174.pdf

the South. At the same time the positive height ' center off tmlle west coast wws proceeding northwestw-urd. As the negative DN diminished in the Southern Plains a new negative center appeared near Baffin Island. BJthe third week this DN weakened somcw-hat and WILS located in Tdaho. Me:mw-hile t'hc positive height anomaly reached a maximum ol ' + 1350 l't. in Altdtri. Bloclting was strongest, very cold air occupied the Northern Plaills, and cooling WRS taking place in the West. It should be rlot'ed t'h:tt ' the West became coldest after the positive DN reached its peak in Alttska. There was a similar lag in the maximum negative value ("390 f't.) that occurred January 20-24 at 34 ' X., 122 ^ W. By the end of t'lle month the positive DN re-entered the Pacific Northwest where warming was in progress and the negative center became quite weak near 23 ' N., ll5O w.