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<li> <a href = "http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/loops/wxloop.cgi?npole_h500_slp+/-168//+-st">500/SLP loop</a> (Note 6 Feb Pakistan trough. 17 cm rain in 48 h; 45 killed.)
<li> Pacific wave packet image (see below)
<li> <a href = "http://www.pa.op.dlr.de/arctic/ecmwf.php?im=10">Tropopause and stratosphere</a>
<li> <a href = "http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/grayskies/nw_wx_climate.html">Local climate</a>

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<li> Australian heat wave
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<li> Australia recorded its hottest month on record in January 2013, with both the average mean temperature of 29.68C and the average mean maximum temperature of 36.92C, surpassing previous records set in January 1932. The national average maximum temperature on 7 January was the highest on record. Numerous stations set records for the most days in succession above 40C, including Alice Springs (17 days) and Birdsville (31 days). A large number of stations set all-time record high temperatures during the January heatwave, including Sydney (45.8C, 114F, on 18 January) and Hobart (41.8C on 4 January). The highest temperature recorded during the heatwave was at Moomba in South Australia (49.6C, 121F, on 12 January). (<i>from University Reading World Weather News</i>)
<li> <a href = "http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/archive/index.shtml">Weather maps</a> See 500 and 850 hPa
<li> <a href = "http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/sounding?region=pac&TYPE=GIF%3ASKEWT&YEAR=2013&MONTH=01&FROM=1600&TO=2412&STNM=94659">Soundings</a>
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<li> East Coast blizzard
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<li> <a href = "http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/09/us/northeast-blizzard/index.html">news images</a>
<li> See accumulation image below.
<li> <a href = "http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/"> Cliff blog post</a> on forecast uncertainty
<li> <a href = "http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~hakim/loop.psp?url=~hakim/feb/slp/">GFS MSLP loop</a>
<li> <a href = "http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~hakim/loop.psp?url=~hakim/feb/">GFS 500 hPa loop</a>
<li> <a href = "http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~hakim/papers/hakim_etal_1996.pdf">Obs and theory</a> of trough-merger predictability
<li> Uncertainty with the next storm (see images below).
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<li> Forecast

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