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22 November 2011
Spooky: Today’s Weather Is Amazingly Similar To 22 Nov. 1963
The map below is the 500 millibar chart for 22 Nov. 1963. The new chart uses a different scale with fewer lines but this does not change the shape of the flow. A lifting short wave trough from Kansas City to Shreveport, with a weak ridge over the Southeast U.S. is apparent. Now look at the 500 mb flow for today, exactly 48 years later. Below are the …