Sentences with phrase «swings southward»

And when that happens, a burst of frigid air swings southward behind the jet stream, causing temperatures to plunge and sometimes bringing heavy snow with it.

A small low pressure system is now expected to develop near the Washington state coastline on Thursday and swing southward down the Pacific coast into Northern California on Friday.

Not exact matches

During the past few weeks, a big swing northward, forming what's called a «ridge» of persistent atmospheric pressure, persisted off the West Coast along with a deep southward dip, or a «trough,» over the East.

What we experienced was one of those big southward dips in the jet stream caused by warming air in the Arctic, in combination with a big northward swing over California and the Eastern Pacific.