"Lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message
eb.com...
Some amazing charts tonight there's one synoptic set up showing as Steve
Murr said on TWO -a cross polar flow. Now that really does look
grotesquely special
http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ecmw...1-216.GIF?07-0

It's like the NH climate is taking drugs !!!!!! Quite unerving to see
such set ups

I've never really looked at polar orientated charts like this so
I don't know how unusual this set-up is. What I always thought
of the North Pole in winter was a weak area of high pressure
(or at least a col) with low pressure systmems circulating around it.

What difference would it make if our arctic northerly happened to
start off life as a southerly from the Atleutian Islands?

It's all just polar air and the wind at the North Pole is *always*
a southerly
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Col

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