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WINTRY DAYS IN METEOROLOGICAL SPRING: Snow, rain, freezing rain and a combination of them will be moving across the state through the day. Rain and freezing rain will be across the southern counties of the state with snow and perhaps some sleet across our northern counties. Any ice accumulation across the south will be relatively minor, but will cause some travel difficulties during the day before the precipitation will change over to all snow by late in the afternoon into the evening hours. You may have heard of these large snow totals coming to the northeastern half of the state. Whereas that may be true, that is over a two day period. It will be snowing at least most of the state through the day on Tuesday possibly moderate to heavy at times. Snow accumulations of 6-10 inches or more are possible in NC into NE and EC Iowa. Any warm air that could change the precipitation over to some freezing rain or plain rain will cut down those totals especially in the southern and southwestern counties where only a few inches if that is possible. The snow will move off to the east Tuesday night with much cooler temperatures down into the single digits and teens by Wednesday morning.
WARMING TOWARD THE WEEKEND: After a brief cool down, temperatures begin to climb once more, perhaps back into the 40s which will melt some of the snow that will be falling or has fallen across the state over the last few weeks. This will be ahead of the next storm system that will move into the state by the weekend. Most of the precipitation with this feature looks to be in the form of rain, however we can’t rule out of the possibility of some wintry mix in our northern counties and at night and cold air begins to wrap back in behind the system on Sunday.
ROARING THROUGH THE MONTH: The GFS continues to show a very active pattern across the Midwest through the middle of the month with several storm systems that may bring us some rain, snow or a combination of the two given what type of surface temperatures we may see. Any added moisture will only help to alleviate the drought across the state.