Good Sunday to one and all. If you’re reading this and didn’t set your clocks up one hour before going to bed, you’re already late to the party. 😎 Speaking of springing forward, we are doing just that in the temperature department for the week ahead.
Before we get into that, let’s look back at the extreme winter weather of the past few days. Record snows fell Friday night into early Saturday with parts of southeastern Kentucky pushing 10″. The cold was also brutal. Lexington had the coldest high temp (24) ever recorded on March 12 and the coldest high this late in March since just after the Superstorm of 1993. 🥶
Our Sunday is starting with some single digit lows across the east and southeast. Wind chills around zero are a good bet for the second morning in a row. By the afternoon, highs reach the 40s for those with snow on the ground with 50s where there isn’t much. A lot of melting takes place today!! Drip… Drip… Drip. 💧
Temps are well into the 50s for Monday with low 60s in the west. Those 60s then surge in here for Tuesday as a system passes just to our south…
That can bring a shower in here, especially across the south.
Temps really surge after this with highs in the upper 60s and low 70s for the rest of the week. The next system then moves in by later Friday or Saturday with a few showers and storms…
Temps will come down some behind that, but the air for the 5 days ahead of it is much above normal…
The setup for the following week is likely to feature a bowling ball type system rolling across the country…
While we are talking about much milder air, I still don’t think this is a true start to full-blown spring. Signs of blocking are showing up at the end of March into early April and this usually sends a trough back into the eastern half of the country.
The Euro Ensembles see this trough…
Ugh.
We’ve had back to back cold spring and it even snowed at the end of April last year. Here’s hoping 2022 bucks that trend.
Have a great day and take care.
