Winter will not give up to Spring.

[Gerrit Gulden]

My goodness, Typically by this time of Year my area gets at least 4 Thunderstorm days and thus far almost every 3rd day we are getting snow by the inches. We have yet to see a thunderstorm here. Yes we did have highs in the lower 70's the last 2 days yet todays high was 40 and it is currently snowing what we call "popcorn snow". On radar a storm did pop up today near me yet did not put out any cgs or lightning from what I saw. It is getting old quick here.

For those that have already entered there 2008 Chase season I am throughly jealous,lol. What I wouldnt give just to have a weak thunderstorm at the moment. Thunderstorm deprivation syndrome is in full.

Anyone else's weather struggling to change to spring out there?


-gerrit

 

[Billy Griffin]

Gerrit,

We had snow here in Seattle yesterday and more snow forecast tonight for levels near 500' ASL. The PSCZ was very active, producing at times, heavy snow squalls at elevations near sea level just on the north side of town. Two+ feet of snow still common in storms in the Cascade foothills.

All the tulips are in full bloom, and what a beautiful scene with all the color and snow falling. This has been quite a unique Spring here in the Pac NW indeed!
What's funny though, is it's more "green" here than when I left Norman last week. Meaning... the trees are in full green and the vegetation isn't dormant.

 

[Tim Shriver]

Here is Wisconsin we had the first tornadoes (EF1 and EF3) of the year during the early
days of January. But then we had snow showers this past Monday and
are hardly able to make it out of the low 50s right now.
I am in the Southern part of the state...Spring ain't sprung completely yet here.

Where's this global warming they all talk about?!?!?!

I fear though that the clash between the cold/dry Vs warm/moist air mass could
set us up for some very intense events in the coming weeks as the two
battle it out.

We could see a couple days where we are at 75 plus for temps with 68-70 dewpoints and have, once again, one of these potent cold fronts come slamming in with temps in the 40's behind it and the spit hits the Spam...

Tim

 

[Charles Kuster]

I know what you mean about winter not giving up. I went up to Leadville last weekend and we still had a snow depth of 26"! At the same time, the low temperature the morning I left (4/27) was 4 degrees F. My parents called me this morning and said they were experiencing blizzard conditions and heavy snow (right now it is 18 degrees with light snow).

Here in Ft. Collins, the weather has been much nicer. We had about 80 degrees yesterday and the whole week has been really nice. It has been awesome to actually experience a real spring for the first time in my life. Sadly, we still have only had one thunderstorm day here, but at least there is not 2 ft. of snow on the ground! Hope conditions up there improve soon for you.

 

[Dann Cianca]

My goodness, Typically by this time of Year my area gets at least 4 Thunderstorm days and thus far almost every 3rd day we are getting snow by the inches. We have yet to see a thunderstorm here. Yes we did have highs in the lower 70's the last 2 days yet todays high was 40 and it is currently snowing what we call "popcorn snow". On radar a storm did pop up today near me yet did not put out any cgs or lightning from what I saw. It is getting old quick here.

For those that have already entered there 2008 Chase season I am throughly jealous,lol. What I wouldnt give just to have a weak thunderstorm at the moment. Thunderstorm deprivation syndrome is in full.

Anyone else's weather struggling to change to spring out there?


-gerrit

Hi Gerrit,
We used to get this "popcorn snow" in Montana all the time. It's actually graupel and comes from convection. Were it a little stronger, you'd no doubt start to hear thunder... don't worry, it's coming.

Dann

 

[Justin Turcotte]

[FONT=lucida sans typewriter, lucida console, courier]Some amazing snow totals from the system that impacted western South Dakota. People there have got to be shaking their heads.

0634 AM HEAVY SNOW 2 N HARDING 45.42N 103.83W
05/02/2008 E48.0 INCH HARDING SD PUBLIC

1 INCH OF RAIN BEFORE SNOW FELL.

[/FONT][FONT=lucida sans typewriter, lucida console, courier]0735 AM HEAVY SNOW 3 SSE HARDING 45.36N 103.81W
05/02/2008 E36.0 INCH HARDING SD TRAINED SPOTTER

6 FT DRIFTS

[/FONT][FONT=lucida sans typewriter, lucida console, courier]0745 AM HEAVY SNOW 2 NE DEADWOOD 44.40N 103.70W
05/02/2008 M26.7 INCH LAWRENCE SD NWS EMPLOYEE

3.53 INCHES LIQUID. [/FONT]

 

[Justin Turcotte]

I could use some global warming...

May 10, 2008 and I had an inch of snow to look at during the morning. I know this in North Dakota but accumulating snow in May is still pretty unsual. Just about every day the last two months has been below average in the temperature department.

 

[Charles Kuster]

Wow, winter really will not give up in Leadville. We have had 15.4" of snow over the past two days with 11.9" of that falling during yesterday alone! We have now had 204.5" of snow for the winter. The temperatures have been low as well with it dipping down to 18 degrees last night.

Here in Ft. Collins it has been relatively nice. We have not had any snow, but did have some cold rain on Monday night. However, this is the last week of classes, so this weekend I will be treated to at least a foot of snow still remaining on the ground up in Leadville.

 

[Billy Griffin]

1-2 feet of snow forecast here for the Cascades near Seattle... with perhaps one to three inches as low as 1000 foot elevations!

 

[Billy Griffin]

6/29/08 - made it up to Paradise (Mt. Rainier) today and still, even though temps have finally made it into the 60s and 70s, most places packed with over 20 feet of snow!

Some are speculating that the 5000 ft. snow level will not melt off this year in time for the return of the snows, typically sometime in late September.

 

[Bob Hartig]

I think it has given up, at least in Michigan.

 

[David Draun]

It is quite comfortable this evening in the Chicago area. Temperaturewise, this reminds me of the Summer of 2004. Once again, 90-degree days have been few and far between. Precipwise, it's been a pretty typical summer like the last 2-3 years with much of the heaviest most interesting thunderstorms occurring south of I80 or in some cases, south of I74; or north of the WI state-line. Any storms approaching NW Cook where I live always weakening, or turning south. I hate the northern Cook county panhandle!!

 

[Joel Wright]

Won't be long and we'll be forecasting winter storms boys!

 

[John A. Sellers]

Yes, in just 5 months from today it will be Christmas Eve! Then a week later a new year and a new chase season ahead of us.

 

[Mike Kovalchick]

6/29/08 - made it up to Paradise (Mt. Rainier) today and still, even though temps have finally made it into the 60s and 70s, most places packed with over 20 feet of snow!

Some are speculating that the 5000 ft. snow level will not melt off this year in time for the return of the snows, typically sometime in late September.

Winter finally gave up even at Paradise. All the snow has melted. (We will ignore the couple of piles of snow in the shade.) And I thought the Winters in Michigan were long!

http://www.nwac.us/products/OSOPVC (They turned off the snow sensors.)

Webcams confirms this:

http://www.nature.nps.gov/air/webcams/parks/moracam/moracam.cfm

http://mms.nps.gov/mora/cam/gh.jpg