by ANN Columnist Scott C. Dennstaedt

Are you feeling an overwhelming sense of deja vu lately? Well here in the US, the weather patterns are becoming all too predictable in last month or two especially in the eastern third of the country. Not to rain or snow on your parade, but it appears the same pattern is likely to persist through then end of the year before we get a bit of a break.

"We're all getting a bit tired of this," said Scott Dennstaedt a certified flight instructor and meteorologist in the Baltimore area. "If it is not the rain, snow or sleet, it's the two days of gusty winds, wind shear, moderate turbulence and icing."

About every three to four days, a new upper-level disturbance gets ejected out of the Pacific Northwest, drops down into the Midwest and begins to gain strength as it moves into the southeastern US. Then the low pressure develops at the surface and turns the proverbial coastal corner and wraps itself up as yet another nor'easter through the Mid-Atlantic and New England states leaving behind strong northwesterly winds.

The Centennial Flight celebration on December 17th was plagued by this unfortunate active weather pattern. "Ironically, weather is what drove the Wright Brothers to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Wright Brothers faced these same weather challenges during their flight testing," Dennstaedt elaborated. "The big difference today is that meteorologists saw this storm brewing over a week in advance. I think safe to say that Wilbur and Orville would have taken advantage of The Weather Channel if it had existed at the time."

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