Andre Ampere, founder of the science of electrodynamics, was born in France this week in 1775. The very next year, the American colonies decided to re-volt. In the weather department, some people will really got a charge out of the recent warmup, especially after the shocking cold we had for a while last week. Now we have to make the right connections about the current situation. Since a cold front moved through, the warming trend is getting short-circuited. However, our flow is not plugged into the Arctic, and west to southwest flow aloft will act as a cold air surge protector.

A low pressure area that will form in the southern Plains will be one that snow lovers will not be estatic about. It will charge northeastward, and we are fairly positive it will bring rain to the I-95 corridor from later Thursday into Friday. Rain is likely from D.C. to AC (New Jersey). Behind the storm, another dry cell of high pressure should reach us, but it looks like it'll be ever ready to keep on going.

In the longer range, the computer models bring us alternating currents of cold and mild, but even when it gets cold, it appears we'll have little snow. Nothing that'll keep people in their ohms. Nothing that should cause any outages. One cold charge could affect the Northeast late in the weekend and early next week. For a couple of days, it looks like our upper air currents will have a connection to the Arctic. If that happens, we'll agree that's a switch. You have to respect the capacitor of the atmosphere to change. Meanwhile, in South America, here's a Rio stat: high today 90.