sweet spring....

What does this mean? Is there a lasp gasp of winter or not? The NWS has been all over the place with their forecast and Henry M. still advertises the "possibility" of a Big Daddy storm.

THEN THE REST OF THE EXTENDED HAS UNCERTAINTY IN TIMING OF SEVERAL
LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS MOVING THROUGH. 00Z GFS SHOWS ANOTHER COLD
FRONT TO SWEEP ACROSS THE REGION LATE THU. THEN LOW PRES SYSTEM
FORMS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO AND MOVES ALONG THE SOUTHEAST COAST ON
FRIDAY BEFORE TAKING A MORE EASTERLY TURN OUT TO SEA BY SAT. HOWEVER
LATEST 00Z ECMWF MODEL OFFERING A DIFFERENT SOLUTION WITH ANY LOW
STAYING WELL EAST COASTAL AREAS SAT.

Huhhhhh?????

The above post was from me.

Greg

Amen to "sweet spring". Looking forward to getting out of the office during lunches and enjoying some warm sunshine.

First

Agree with ya Greg, LWX mentions the GFS showing "out to sea" then mentions the Euro showing "different solution" with low showing well easy off the coast.....kinda makes it a "similar solution" huh? Even more odd is the 00Z GFS actually shows us getting precip from this system.....so, I'm at a loss for what they were trying to say....

"March comes in like a lion"

SPC has put the area under a slight risk for severe thunderstorms on Tuesday.

".......WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED TO BE THE MAIN THREAT...THOUGH STRONGLY CURVED HODOGRAPHS/LOW LEVEL SHEAR AND A MOIST BOUNDARY LAYER WOULD ALSO FAVOR A POTENTIAL FOR TORNADOES WITHIN ROTATING BOW HEADS...."

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day3otlk.html

Nice link, Steve. I was BORN in Lewiston, Maine so I guess that explains it when I say, "WHERE'S MY LION?"

Just so people know the geography, Lewiston is not particularly far north or up in altitude. It's on the fall line, only about 20 miles from the coast, and in what's known as "Central" Maine, but just about 60 miles from the N.H. border on I-95. They've gotten hammered over and over by this repetitive pattern.

Some other Maine storm totals are here.

18z GFS finally brings a coastal storm but just offshore. This could certainly change.

At last: A semblance of meteorological Spring. It's getting awfully tiring to be lugging the heavy coat around in thirty/forty degree weather. Especially with no snow worth shaking a stick at, as has prevailed all winter.

Now to find some way to get rid of that severe weather event or whatever when I'm trying to get to the Clarendon Ballroom tomorrow evening...

By the way, what's this about an "above normal" winter??? As I recall, the weather this past meteorological winter was not OBSCENELY warm like the first half of the previous winter, when we just couldn't seem to shake off the autumn weather. The only thing missing this winter was the snow. When we got any kind of weather it seemed to have a preference for hitting on evenings when I was trying to get to a dance or similar activity. (Note: the dance schedulers didn't help much either. They scheduled dances for the same nights we had Redskins and Packers playoff games, and didn't cancel the Clarendon Ballroom dance that Tuesday night we had the ice storm that stalled traffic on the Mixing Bowl ramps for hours. Though I got to the Clarendon Ballroom that Tuesday night, it was a hazardous experience and only 50 or 60 of us showed up. Normally we get 200-300. They would have been well-advised to cancel that evening.)