Sentences with phrase «high ridge blocked»

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WMO said the abnormal weather was caused by a persistent ridge of high pressure over western and central Europe, blocking more normal patterns of rainfall and temperature.

The authors, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, found that global warming meant the high - pressure blocking ridge was more likely to arise, increasing chances of drought.

A blocking high pressure system in the North Atlantic creating consistent strong northeasterly flow would provide wave action that may have contributed to the chevron ridge formation in the Bahamas and Bermuda.

However, the latest ENSO MAX was tempered to some degree by the PDO which helped ensure a blocking ridge of high pressure which did not allow much needed drought busting rain through.

For about two years now, an atmospheric ridge of high pressure in the northeastern Pacific has blocked out storms and high winds, allowing the sun to heat a 2,000 - mile stretch of ocean stretching from the Gulf of Alaska to Mexico.

For California, the upshot has been the increasing prevalence of a ridge and blocking high pressure system deflecting storms away from the California coast.

The aforementioned high - amplitude ridging in the Gulf of Alaska and the associated «blocked» flow over the Pacific Ocean has led to an accumulation of very cold air on its downstream side over western Canada.

One cause of this in the current drought is a persistent ridge of strong high pressure looming off the coast that has blocked Pacific storms from reaching the state.

The HAARP (ionosphere heater) created «ridiculously resilient ridge» of blocking high pressure has been eliminated for now.

When a blocking high is in place, the jet stream is directed around it to the north, produces a ridge.

The conditions for both the warmest and driest years is generally created, the scientists said, when increased coastal temperatures warm air in the lower atmosphere, creating a ridge of high pressure that ramps up temperatures even further and blocks rain - bearing storms from reaching the state.

The scientists found that the blocking ridge of high pressure was deflecting storms northward, and that the phenomenon had become more common in recent decades.

Southern California in particular experienced little relief due to a persistent high - pressure ridge that blocked El Niño storms from hitting the region.

One such blocking pattern, a high pressure ridge over Greenland, shaped Sandy's turn toward the East Coast.

This high pressure ridge has been acting «like a brick wall» and forcing the jet stream along a much more northerly track, «blocking Pacific winter storms from coming ashore in California, deflecting them up into Alaska and British Columbia, even delivering rain and cold weather to the East Coast.