THE WEATHER AND CIRCULATION OF NOVEMBER 1966 A Mild Month With Two Intense Midwest Storms and a Record Early Cold Spell

• Main Author: A. James Wagner
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Baffin Island; Northern Rockies; Pacific; Baffin
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.395.3206; http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/095/mwr-095-02-0089.pdf

1966 was characterized by strong ridges in the Aleutians and in the north-central Atlantic (figs. 1 and 2). The Low usually found near Baffin Island was deeper than normal, representing a relaxation of the blocking observed the previous month [l]. Below normal heights associated with vigorous troughs were also found over a large part of eastern Asia, near the west coast of the United States, and over the western European-Mediterranean area. The abnormally short wavelength between the eastern Pacific and Midwest troughs suggests the latter may have been at least partially an orographically induced feature associated with abnormally strong westerly flow across the Northern Rockies. As often happens when heights are above normal at high or middle latitudes over the oceans, there were