Good evening, folks. I wanted to drop by for a very quick update to the busy weather pattern we continue to be in. It’s a pattern loaded with another big storm for the upcoming week.
In the short-term… Wow. How about this turn around from the record warm winter day to actual winter… In less than 24 hours. A few flurries will continue to fly into the evening with 20s later tonight.
Sunday looks good with upper 40s to mid 50s across the region.
Monday will find a shower maker working in as mild air surges back from the southwest. Highs can make a run at 60 with a late day rumble of thunder.
This is ahead of a bigger storm developing in the plains and working toward the Ohio Valley Tuesday into Wednesday. This one has a severe weather look to it…
March will roar in like a lion on Wednesday,
Much colder air comes in behind that with some snow showers and flurries on Thursday. That northwesterly flow continues with a clipper diving in for Friday…
That may have a swath of light snow and flurries with it.
As that pulls away, temps should recover quickly ahead of another plunge of cold air late next weekend into early the following week.
The GFS continues showing some pretty stout cold shots over the next few weeks…
I’m beginning to become very intrigued by the upcoming spring severe weather season. The Gulf of Mexico water temps are among the warmest ever recorded heading into spring. I’ve seen some studies showing that warm water being a catalyst to an active severe weather season.
Have a great evening and take care.
Will the cold shots be accompanied by moisture?
I predict a rough severe season.
I second this prediction.
So many sections of streets in the neighborhood look like crime scenes today from our lovely dark purple and black radar storm last night. The force of the wind and hail stripped all of the red bugs from the trees and embedded them into the asphalt like large swaths of blood spatter.
Also, make sure your AC game is on point NOW. The chances of this summer being a scorcher AND humid are strong.
Thanks Chris. Today hasn’t been horrible, but it sure is a might colder than yesterday. It cleared up nicely here in Somerset, but the wind has been quite chilly. Since we have been having this see saw weather, my hubby and I have finally been caught by the nasty cold bug. His is in his head, while mine started out as a slight cough and now I can barely talk and I feel that tickle deep in my throats and chest. The upcoming week doesn’t boost my confidence if any normalcy either.. Oh well, at least the CATS won today! Have a great Saturday night all. Thanks again Chris for all you do.
I was born and raised in Southern Ohio. Jackson County. We always had thunder storms in the spring and summer. When I got older I met a girl from Xenia Greene County Ohio. Well the reason I’m telling you this is we got married and had two children. We lived in Xenia Ohio in early 1970’s. On April 3, 1974 in the morning it was mostly clear with a few patchy clouds. I was standing in the door way and I said to my wife at the time I would like to see a tornado but I wouldn’t want to be in it. Well the day before I was going back to Jackson but the Beatle I was driving wasn’t running right. So I decided to wait till April the 3 in the morning. So I left home and headed south to my mom and dads house. Around evening time I got the word that a tornado had hit Xenia Ohio. I had no contact with my wife at all and did not know if her and the kids were dead or alive. But later I found out my wife was at work and she had taken the kids to our baby sitter. The baby sitter’s husband had taken my kids and his wife and another baby to the cellar just in time. The tornado past right over top of them and the kids had soot all over there faces. My little girl was one my son was going to be 3 in July. The house was completely destroyed. The cellar door was blocked by a refrigerator. But the baby sitter husband pried his way out. The were 6 people killed on the same area the my kids were at. Later that night I finally made it in Xenia a part that hadn’t been hit and found my wife and kids safe. My wife at the time was on the edge of the tornado and took cover at work and was not harmed.
The tornado drove a large eye beam in the rear end of my other car and sand blasted it. After that day it snowed. It never hit my home where I lived. Xenia was like a military base after words. The helicopter’s flew daily. I could have stolen any thing I wanted right after in the following days. But I was not raised that way and never took anything. You would not believe what I saw and I do not want to see it again. The people walking around in a daze and all of the destruction I saw. So lets hope we have a safe spring and no bad storms. BH.
Thanks for your sobering yet interesting and informative comments. I wasn’t born until about a decade after 1974, but I’ve read much about the so-called Super Outbreak of 74.
When I was in college at WKU, I befriended a fellow student that had relatives in 1974 that lived through the horror of the F5 tornado at Brandenburg KY. My friend’s relatives had a home to go back to, but they knew many of the 31 that were killed that day in/near Brandenburg:
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Let’s hope for the best this spring but be prepared anyway just in case. Some signs are that this could be an active spring severe wx season.
I always liked different kinds of weather. But tornados are killers. I remember that day well and the ones in Kentucky that day were very bad also.