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The weather is about to turn stormy, wet, and windy, as the first strong front reaches our coast later today.
And connected with this change is the strengthening of the jet stream, the current of strong winds aloft, and its movement right over us, with winds reaching 150 mph from the west over the weekend
The forecast map of upper level winds (200 hPa, roughly 35,000 ft) shows strong winds extending from Japan to our coast (red are winds of 150 kt and more!). The flight from Japan to Seattle will be quite short on Sunday.
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It's interesting that the jet stream was discovered after the US Air Force realized that their high altitude bombing runs over Japan were wholly ineffective during WW2. Thereafter they did their runs at much lower altitudes, except of course excluding the atomic bombs.
ReplyDeleteA B25 bomber dropping ammo into a 150mph wind , yes not effective at all.
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