Good Sunday to one and all. It’s another gorgeous weather day in the Commonwealth as milder air presses in. The week ahead starts even milder before some bigger changes slowly start to show up, leading us into more of a winter look and feel.
Temps out there today are in the 60-65 degree with a mix of sun and clouds.
Temps on Monday will likely top 70 for many…
A weakfront drops in Monday night and Tuesday morning with the chance for a shower or thunderstorm. Temps come way down behind this front…
A bigger storm rolls our way by the end of the week into the weekend. This one is being pushed by cold air…
It’s a really cold signal taking shape after this weekend system rolls through. Check out how much of the country sees the well below normal temps on this GFS Ensembles animation from March 11th through March 20th…
Winter in spring is a thing and #TeamSpring ain’t happy.
Have a sensational Sunday and take care.
My weather station’s barometer is getting a workout; at the height of the storm, it bottomed out at 29.01 in/hg, while this morning it has climbed to 30.26 in/hg. People who are sensitive to pressure changes have been given a workout!
Scattered around the yard in the storm’s aftermath, I believe that I have enough sticks and limbs to build a small tree.
I saw your comment on the previous thread about your power being out for over 28 hours until it was restored… wow! My power was out for over 32 hours in August of 2021 when a derecho with 80-90 MPH winds slammed through the area.
Paducah KY had a record low barometer reading of 977.7 millibars (28.87 inches of mercury) on Friday, which easily broke their old record of 981 millibars (28.97 inches of mercury) set way back in February of 1960.
Glad your power is back on and that the damage by you was limited to broken branches and limbs. Hope others who still don’t have power are back online today.
Here is the link for the summary of the heavy snow and thundersnow that quickly accumulated Friday afternoon in East-Central IL (over 4 inches) and Northern Indiana (over 5 inches). The snowfall gradient was very tight.
There were also some interesting thoughts about why this was such an unusually challenging forecast for meteorologists (and computer models) trying to pinpoint where the heaviest snow would fall.
Just two days prior to the storm, some computer models were predicting between 10 and 12 inches of snow for portions of the Chicago Metro Area. Those areas (including where I live in the SW Suburbs) wound up getting absolutely nothing.
https://weather.gov/lot/2023mar03
Thanks Mike, I remember seeing reports on the news about that particularly nasty derecho!
Unfortunately, many Kentuckians have not had their power restored. At 6:55 pm CST, nearly 13,000 customers in my area remain without power, and that’s just South Central Kentucky!
http://12.153.21.72:82/
And across the state, over 156,000 customers are waiting for power to be restored!
One reason the damage has been so extensive is the huge area affected by these winds, and the fact that there are many instances of falling trees and limbs cutting the same power line in multiple places, turning what should have been a relatively straightforward restoration process, into trial and error. My heart goes out to those power company crews!