Good Thursday, everyone. Our wimpy winter weather maker is pushing off to the east with much better weather coming in today. With January ending on Friday, another system moves in with a few showers. This lingers into Saturday before some of the good stuff returns for Super Bowl Sunday.
Let’s begin with today and roll ahead. Any morning flurries go bye bye in the east and then our skies try to brighten by the afternoon. Temps will warm into the 40s.
Our next system develops well to our southeast on Friday, but will throw a few showers in here. This could even begin as a touch of frozen stuff in the north. That’s ahead of a Saturday system diving in from the northwest with mainly rain, but this may end as a few flakes by evening. You can see all this on the NAM…
Sunday is the rare combo of Groundhog Day and the Super Bowl, but it will be Mother Nature stealing the show. Temps will spike into the upper 50s and low 60s with plenty of sunshine…
Temps for Monday and Tuesday will climb into the 60s on a strong southwesterly flow. This flow will also bring rounds of rain in here ahead of a slow-moving cold front. That front moves in here on Wednesday, unleashing much colder air. That same front may stall near the region allowing another big storm to develop along it.
Watch this whole setup on the EURO…
That would be a rather interesting setup.
Updates will come your way later today. Until then, have a terrific Thursday and take care.
Interesting and to good to be true.
Well is that a week away storm….hhhhmmmmm….Well don’t that look special!!!
I studied that last model for several minutes and could not find any phasing between the surface low coming out of the Gulf of Mexico with any cold upper level low from the northwest to produce any measurable snowfall for our area. I think the weather models along with the NWS are ” kicking the can ” down the old tired weather road once again.
No phasing needed when the cold air is in place on a stalled out front that has a low that runs along it. That is a flat out Apps runner and IF comes to fruition will bring a nice snow to some part of Ky.
Sorry Bjenks, Meteorological you need two systems coming together to make a complete snowstorm even when you have cold temperature at the surface and aloft. Weather is magnetic. Positive is always attracted to negative and vice versa. The last several Winters the negative from the North has been absent. Will it return so the Ohio Valley can get a major snowstorm ? It does not look too promising, but remember, weather is always changing.
Schroeder, you wonder why CB on occasion will call you out? You come off knowing more about weather than CB that just doesn’t bode well for you. Just stick to be a retired horticulturalist, let CB handle the weather part.
I don’t know Prelude, I may know more than Chris Bailey. I know I’m a lot older and I have had training in the field of Meteorology in college. You know what they say wisdom comes with age.
Rest as*ured, Schroeder, you do NOT know more than Chris Bailey as it pertains to weather….
Schroeder has said multiple times that he knows more about the weather than Chris. He even said “I have forgotten more about the weather than Chris knows”.
Ah yes the old because I’m old I naturally know more argument. That has held up well for decades.
Checking out the Arctic and finding that the cold air is dropping south on the other side of the Earth. The air m*a*s*s we continue to be in is from the North Pacific region. However, we still could get snowstorms form this upper level energy, but you have to have a surface low in the western Gulf of Mexico to phase to make a snowstorm for our region and here lately is not likely to happen.
I take it his newly acquired status as persona non grata precludes further Mike S. mini-blog entries?
I hope Mike S comes back to the forum. I learned a lot from his post and he always answered my weather questions. On another opinion and I hope I don’t catch heck from Chris Bailey, I think when Chris feels offended by a commentator’s post he should contact that person by e-mail rather than call him out on his blog for everyone in the World to read. This happen to me sometime ago and I felt very humiliated and I will never forget it either. Just saying.
You need to quit provoking CB on his blog. You had it coming and you deserved every bit of it.
Prelude, Schroeder is given his opinion just like everyone else does. I don’t see him provoking CB what so ever.
That quote about El nino was from a reliable source and was very much correct. I was just learning about the internet and didn’t know how to copy and paste. Chris Bailey had no real reason to humiliate me that Palm Sunday about three years ago. I’m not just a horticulturist I am Nationally know as a horticulturist because my late Father and I were the first in Indiana to genetically create Azaleas and Rhododendrons to grow in the upper Mid West. All the plants we introduce to the trade were registered with the Royal Horticultural Society. I’m not retired. I still work as a consultant.
I hear that rain train a comin around the bend! Still waiting on that “pattern flip” I keep hearing about several places.
Hoping this works out for snow…Schroeder good points BTW.
Thanks Russell, I thought so too.
AO off the charts..NAO not impressive either..Ready for mosquitoes,fly’s ,allergies and brutal heat..Got a feeling gonna be a rough one..
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/ao.shtml
Yep, looks that way for now.
It’s all good! As long as no ice- let the wimpy keep commin’ 🙂
Some people on here sound very important. I bet they “have many leather-bound books and their apartment smells of rich mahogany”….haha
Weather wise, you really don’t have to be that brilliant to know that next week after the big warmup, temp will come down (but not that cold) and it will rain, maybe at the end see a few flurries for 10 minutes. Yes the weather is changing, but the winter only has one TREND