Good Friday, folks. Just when you think our weather can’t get anymore extreme, March kicks off by taking things to a new level. In the first three days of the month we’ve had 70s, severe thunderstorms, high winds, a 40 degree temp drop, and a mini snowstorm that dropped up to 9″ of snow.
Will this extreme setup continue through the rest of the month? Does a bear… ummm… sleep in the woods? 🙂
A true spring pattern looks to get going next week and it could bring get our thunderstorm season off and running much earlier than normal.
Before then, we still have a little more action to go through. A weak front drops into the region on Saturday. This system could have a light rain or snow shower ahead of it early Saturday morning…
Gusty winds of 30-35mph will boost temps into the 50s by Saturday afternoon. The actual front moves in late in the day with another shower chance and some slightly cooler air for Sunday…
From here, spring starts to flex some muscle next week. Temps will soar with readings heading toward 70 degrees on occasion. Moisture will increase from the south and southwest and that flow may stay very persistent. Rounds of showers and thunderstorms will be possible, and that could lead to some very heavy rainfall over the next 1-2 weeks…
I leave you with the theme song for this illustrious blog update…
Make it a great Friday and take care.
again thank you Chrisfor all of your weather wisdom.
it looks like March will be full of weather surprises. flooding and severe weather episodes.
Who got nine inches? Besides Trump. Sorry, had the debate on my mind.
We got nothing, but of course I wasn’t expecting anything.
Bring on Spring!
So, Chris, the question EVERYONE wants to know…are we done with winter??? We are talking thunderstorms and no talk of more cold, so I’m hoping we can jump into spring mode here 🙂
Wow, what a sneaky system that was.. Looking forward to warmth and thunder.
Well (at least in my area) the last snow flakes of the season have fallen…now on to hoping for far fewer rain drops for Spring than the last 6-7 years.
Ken Mellons WORK for WEEKEND BETTER SONG..
It looks like the warm and wet pattern that ruled early winter is returning. Actually the pattern has been wet most of the time but the warmth seems to have returned. Dry weather would be nice at some point!
We are also now one year removed from the start of the worst snow storm of my life.
Still wild that a lot of Kentucky had three major snow storms in one year. and most had at least one.
Trend? Even the bigger snow runs from the 70’s to 90’s did not have three in a year’s time. Uncharted, this be. We went seventeen years with most areas not having a big snow event and the ones we had being isolated to more specific areas of the state. Our big events for the state overall were ice.
Yes, we’ve gone from having small, medium, and sometimes large events to long stretches of NOTHING and freakishly high and low temps and huge events. Hmm, I wonder if our flat earth is tilting? Nah, probably those pesky lizard people again and their secret weather machines. If only they could translate that acumen into producing better TV series about themselves!
A dry out would be nice. For the most part the last five years in March has been significantly more wet than historic averages. The thing I looked at the other day had something like 4 inch rain totals in an average March but many of the last five years have been running around 6 inch totals. Not good for outside activities coming out of the winter months.