Winter Aint Over Yet (3/23-3/24 Weather Thread)

[Wesley]

What does Earls say? The NAM have anything good? Where's the snow?

 

[ISUAlum05]

I knew we were going to pay for the awesomeness that was last year. This sucks bad.

 

[wonkadog]

Yeah...you are pretty alone on that one I'm betting.

Nope, count me in. I have always hated Spring way more than any other season. It's always crappy with these leftover snow storms, the ground is complete mush and mud the whole time, usually my allergies start going crazy once things do green up....it blows (literally, that's another one, usually super windy out).

 

[UNIGuy4Cy]

I cant even stress how much I am tired of winter. I had last Friday off and ran errands in shorts, I CANT WAIT FOR THIS **** TO GO AWAY!

 

[Ciclone]

I thought this thread might be another HBO ad for Games of Thrones.

 

[NickTheGreat]

Good. Bring on the snow! :yes::yes::yes:

 

[Wesley]

Good. Bring on the snow! :yes::yes::yes:

Ice too?

 

[isuno1fan]

Spring is by far my most hated season.

It's my second most hated.

Fall is my fav, then summer, then spring.

Nope, count me in. I have always hated Spring way more than any other season. It's always crappy with these leftover snow storms, the ground is complete mush and mud the whole time, usually my allergies start going crazy once things do green up....it blows (literally, that's another one, usually super windy out).

I'm thinking of Spring as being April, May, & June. The bulk of March is still Winter, but the bulk of June is still Spring.

How anyone cannot like the months of May & June is beyond me. Best time of year by far.

 

[Sparkplug]

This is from the NWS discussion thread. If I read it correctly, they are saying that 2 out of 3 computer models say that it will stay south and mostly miss us. At this time, they are forecasting based on those two models.

CONSEQUENTLY TEMPS WILL REMAIN WELL
BELOW NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR IN THE TUNE OF 10 TO 20
DEGREES COLDER THAN EXPECTED FOR MID TO LATE MARCH. ALREADY BY
FRIDAY UNCERTAINTY BEGINS TO CREEP INTO VARIOUS MED RANGE MODEL
SOLUTIONS WITH GFS CONTINUING TO PRODUCE A BROADER...MORE SLOWLY
MOVING INTERMOUNTAIN REGION H500 TROUGH COMPARED TO BOTH THE 12Z/00Z
GEM AND 12Z/00Z EURO SOLUTIONS. THIS HAS BROAD IMPLICATIONS FOR THE
REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST AS GFS REMAINS QUITE BULLISH IN FIRST
INCREASING WARM AIR ADVECTION FORCING AND PRECIPITATION ACROSS IOWA
ON FRIDAY AND THEN AMPLIFYING THE SYSTEM OVER IOWA FROM SATURDAY
THROUGH MONDAY WITH A RATHER POTENT STORM. THOUGH THE 00Z GEM ALSO
AMPLIFIES THE SYSTEM IT CONTINUES TO TAKE A MORE SOUTHERLY TRACK AS
IT BEGINS TO DIG THE ENTIRE WAVE SOONER AS IT DEEPENS THE H500 LOW
OVER OK AND AR RATHER THAN THE GFS AMPLIFICATION IN KS...MO...AND
IA. THIS LEADS TO SOME PRECIPITATION BUT NOT THE BROAD AND EXTENDED
HIGHER IMPACT SOLUTION THAT THE GFS PROVIDES. THE 00Z EURO HAS AGAIN
MIRRORED PREVIOUS RUNS WITH MOST OF THE ENERGY STAYING WELL SOUTH OF
THE REGION AND ONLY THE SOUTH BEING BRUSHED WITH BETTER CHANCES OF
WRAP AROUND MOISTURE ON SUNDAY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST OVER THE WEEKEND WITH SUNDAY SHOWING THE
BETTER CHANCES...BUT OVERALL WILL TEND TO LEAN TOWARD THE EURO MODEL
AND GEM OVER THE GFS. THE GFS LOOKS TOO AMPLIFIED TOO FAR NORTH AT
THIS TIME. WILL NEED TO MONITOR THE EVOLUTION OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS
AS THE SYSTEM LOOKS LARGE ENOUGH TO BRING SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION
TO EITHER THE MID MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY OR THE GREAT PLAINS IF IT
DOES INDEED DEVELOP FARTHER NORTH. FOR THE MOST PART...TEMPERATURES
WILL BE COOL EVEN BY THE END OF THE WEEK. WITHS SOME MODERATION IN
H850 READINGS BY FRIDAY...HIGHS WILL EVENTUALLY RISE BACK INTO THE
30S AND 40S OVER MOST OF THE REGION. THE COLDEST NIGHT STILL LOOKS
LIKE WED NIGHT WITH LOWS NEAR ZERO IN THE FAR NORTH AND LOW TO MID
TEENS ELSEWHERE.

Are Cliff Notes available for this post?

 

[isudoc03]

Are Cliff Notes available for this post?

It might snow.

 

[alarson]

:arghh:

 

[cowgirl836]

my Dad always says he likes to have a green Christmas and a white Easter. Sure looks like Easter is going to be snow-filled at this point.

It can't last long though, it can't last long, which is why he likes snow in the spring. I remember one year we got a bunch of snow on like April 14th. My siblings and I built a big snow fort in our yard that my mom videotaped. The very next day, allllllllllllllllll the snow was gone. She took a video of that too because it was crazy how fast it was gone. Maybe we'll get lucky and it's going to bounce straight from snowy and 20s-30s to sunny at 70 from here to May.

 

[FDWxMan]

:arghh:

Yeah. But there's a big fat 0.0" over Des Moines according to the Euro. Don't freak yet.

 

[alarson]

Whats sucked about this winter is usually it seems like we get one period somewhere in jan or feb where it randomly jumps up into the 60s\70s and gives us a break for a bit before going right back to cold. I dont feel like we got that break this year.

 

[alarson]

Yeah. But there's a big fat 0.0" over Des Moines according to the Euro. Don't freak yet.

Im a message board poster. Freaking out is kind of what we do.

 

[ISUAlum05]

Cheering pretty hard for the Euro over here...

 

[Wesley]

:arghh:

That looks like the northern not the southern route.

 

[Bret44]

You sound like an East or West Coaster. The world doesn't revolve around Des Moines man. Like, Des Moines is just a spot on, like, a map. Get a clue, dude.

 

[Iastfan112]

Euro still holds the system well south.

 

[Wesley]