Good Saturday, folks. We continue to track a weak system grazing the state later tonight, but the focus is on much better weather setting up shop Sunday. This kicks off a much milder setup for the first week of the new month ahead, but there are signs of March being March right after that.
Today finds quite a bit of clouds across the region, but some rays of sun will be noted. Highs are generally in the 40s.
That fast-moving system rolls eastward through the Tennessee Valley tonight and Sunday morning. This gets close enough for some light rain and light snow across the far south and southeast…
Here are your radars to follow the action in from the southwest…
Things turn much better on Sunday as highs reach the upper 40s to low 50s with partly to mostly sunny skies.
Temps make a run at 60 for day one of the new month as March comes in like a lamb. Temps continue to slowly climb and should make a run at 70 before the week is over. That mild air will be ahead of what may be a potent plains storm system…
Showers and thunderstorms would rumble through in a setup like that.
The second week of March is likely to turn much more active as colder air tries to press back in here. That’s likely to lead to much above normal precipitation once again. The EURO Ensembles are showing this well for week two of the month…
The latest EURO Weeklies suggest a very active 32 day period ending on April 8th…
The temp departure on the for the EURO Weeklies show the potential for another colder than normal spring. Check out the below normal temps it’s forecasting through the middle of April…
Ugh.
I will have another update later today, so check back. Make it a good one and take care.
Again…..another well above normal precip start……I mean, it’s already at 13 inches since Jan 1. LOL…
I was looking at last years data and I noticed at by this time last year Lexington had 20.1 inches of snow for the season….this year is just over 18 inches…..
The average temperature since January 1st in Taylor County was 35 degrees and the Snowfall was right at our average of 11 inches and combining all precipitation types right at 12 inches.
I’m not buying the cold spring part.
Same weather pattern as last years La Nina.
With the 1 to 3 inch snowfall the Chicago area experienced on Thursday night/Friday morning, O’Hare Airport is now at 28.6 inches of snow for the season (30,7 inches of snow is normal by this time). The NWS Forecast Office in Romeoville in the SW suburbs is nearly identical, with 28.5 inches.
Only one major snowstorm has affected the area so far this season (on Feb. 2nd), with lots of minor snow events of a few inches or so.
Mike, I wish we could receive a Winter with that much Snow. We had one Snowstorm that totaled 8 inches back in January, but didn’t stay around very long. After that we had an additional 3 inches from different Storms.
Boooo!! Ready for spring
Hope you’re right Jeff!
Bring on 70s and low humidity lol
Russell, I might be Crazy, but I dread Springs around here.