To much surprise the first flower of 2016 season has already opened today! The plant to claim this title goes to one single snowdrop ( Galanthus elwesii ) that decided to take the plunge and open today in the brilliant sunshine and high of 48.F that we had. This is by far much earlier than …
Month: January 2016
Significant Blizzard with Major Travel Impacts Expected This Week
A significant blizzard is current on track to affect the state early next week, beginning late Monday night and continuing through early Wednesday morning. A disturbance over the Pacific is expected to develop into an upper-level low today and trek it’s way to the Oklahoma panhandle by tomorrow. By Tuesday night, a very strong 300 mb …
Significant Blizzard Expected to Impact Area Early Next Week
Confidence is continuing to increase by the day and the hour for a blizzard to impact the state early next week. A disturbance currently over the Pacific Ocean, over 3,000 miles away from the state, is expected to be the “match” for a potentially significant event to impact the area. This disturbance will likely develop into …
Confidence Increasing in Winter Storm Next Week
Confidence is increasing for a winter storm to impact the area next week. Models have been oddly very consistent on timing, path, and strength of this system, which is currently lurking in the central Pacific as of the time of this post. The two primary models that we are looking at, the European ECMWF and American …
Winter Weather to Make Triumphant Return Next Week
Not a lot of weather concerns in the short term with the primary highlight being a considerable warmup through the weekend. High temperatures today will be in the low 30s northeast to low 40s southwest, with low temperatures sitting in the upper teens to mid 20s. But have no fear, the warm up is here! …
Spring-Like Saturday Followed by Active Weather
Cool, calm, and quiet weather would be the best way to discuss the short term outlook over the end of this week as we see few precipitation chances and generally normal temperatures, aside from a warming trend for the end of the week. Today: The weather today will feature mostly sunny-to-partly cloudy skies in the morning …
A Quiet Few Days
No Video Today THE WEEK AHEAD: Sunshine will be returning in force later this week as warmer air will be coming as well. Today, however will be mainly cloudy with only the western counties seeing any prolonged sunshine. Highs today will be in the 20s to around 30. As we head toward the end of …
Little Ice, Little Rain, Little Snow
A PEPPERING OF PRECIPITATION: A system will be moving through the state today bringing with it a chance of some rain, wintry mix and snow. Most of the precipitation will be in the form of rain over the southern and eastern counties of the state by the late morning hours after some freezing drizzle or …
Something Wintry to talk about
A WINTRY MIX: Skies today will be mainly cloudy with only some peaks of sunshine here and there. Highs today will be in the 30s. A storm system will move into the state late tonight through Monday into early on Tuesday. There is a chance of a wintry mix early on changing over to some …
A Nice Weekend For Once
A WARMER WEEKEND: It will feel nice and warm outside compared to what we saw last weekend however there will be some clouds around and a few peaks of sunshine as well. Highs today will range from the middle 20s to the lower 30s. On Sunday temperatures will be well into the 30s across the …