Friday, March 30, 2018

A dent in the drought? Let's look

First off, I hope everyone has a nice Easter weekend. I know the weather may not turn out the way you had hoped, but at least we don't have to worry about difficult driving conditions. We will have quite the chill Sunday morning with wind chills down in the 20s, but the blast of colder weather is only around for about 36 hours.

We are heading into another stretch of dry weather for the Plains going into our first week of April. But I've been watching the longer range models for any sign of some wet weather and we may have something cooking.

Late Next Week:
A powerful jet will be coming into the West and that could lead to increased rain chances across a larger area of the Plains.
American Model (GFS) for the 1st weekend in April
Other long range models seem to be hinting at wet weather too. Take a look at this collection of models for the period of April 6-11, highlighting what could be a rather nice swath of some rain from the High Plains of Colorado and Nebraska to the Ozarks.

One thing is for certain, we still have some VERY chilly air headed this way. I think we could see some record cold temperatures here in another week. A LARGE batch of much colder air will slide out of the northern Plains toward Kansas, so I would be cautious planting too many sensitive plants right now as winter isn't quite ready to give up.


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