The Canadian chart is showing a Low over the mid-western USA:
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/ensem...me=00&Type=pnm

It's pretty much a “col“ over the rest of the eastern States, as far
as about 100 degrees west, maybe.
Most of Canada is sitting under an High and there are large Highs
either side of the continent.

Their Northern Hemisphere chart is looking slightly different, with a
Low menacing the NE USA:
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/data/analysis/947_50.gif

That chart also shows a High and a Low suitably situated in the
northern North Atlantic just right for a spell full of cold weather
this week, never mind what the better educated may think.

The UK has one half decent TV show that deals with agricultural
interests. Mostly it is geared to a children's style magazine hence
the intake for presenters coming from Blue Peter. But what would one
expect from a self contained quango with a penchant for jessies and
drug abusers?

It's the only place on TV -not counting the regional newscasts which
are lax enough in some areas to allow a view of the North Atlantic
chart. Which almost hardly gets used.

For non UK residents, one can get a glimmer of what it used to be like
before modern technology gave us massive improvements:
http://satellite.ehabich.info/hurricane2nc.htm

Allow me to draw your attention to the writing on the screen, Notice
it is in brown and green? And the predominant colours of the
background?

Well the BBC in its majesty has solved such problems as illegibility
by doing away with all things graphic except the background. Instead
it makes do with us having to believe whatever the presenters tell us
to believe whilst they are waving at what looks like spilled porridge.

They won't tell us how much that set up cost.
I do not wonder why.

And since there is obviously no money in it, the independent services
don't even offer what the BBC does. The Met Office must be demanding
outrageous prices for its services. So why doesn't someone approach
the Canucks? Or even the Chimpistanians? They are their satellites,
after all.

Still I suppose nothing better from a government made up of sock
puppets. And one with a leader who has a tatty, large hole in it at
that, darn it!

Meanwhile:
http://www.westwind.ch/?link=ukmb,ht...racknell+13 2
has a deepening Low situated in the middle of the Atlantic until March
the 8th.

So that should prove interesting, as once March the 8th is past the
Low is scheduled to return..
Or is it?