A 48-hour  forecast from NCEP’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) model

A 48-hour forecast from NCEP’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) model showing mean sea level pressure (solid lines) in millibars (mb), 1000-500 mb thickness (a measure of temperature of a layer) in decameters (red and blue dotted lines), and six-hour total precipitation in inches (colored contours using scale on left).  The forecast was valid May 24, 2007.

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