Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Overnight Forecast Discussion: April 4, 2012

Hotspot tonight: Southeast
A couple storm systems connected by frontal boundaries will be progressing eastward, provoking showers and thunderstorms across the Southeast into portions of the South Plains. As for severe weather, not much is expected due to the loss of daytime heating in the atmosphere. A cold front will be trailing behind the system, but the main frontal area will be way off in Texas, while the only part that may produce some showers will be just a small area in Louisiana.

Northwest
A storm system coming onshore will produce some mountain snows and rain in lower elevations. Winds will be gusty in the mountains as a cold front moves eastward. No severe weather is expected, but any major snows that fall may have an avalanche risk due to the gusty winds.

Northeast
Snow and rain showers will move through the region overnight. Nothing major is expected, but some slick roads could result from either form of precipitation.

Southwest
A high pressure system will be invaded by a storm system, though it will not be producing any precipitation as of yet. The South Plains should keep an eye out, however.

9 comments:

ERN WX said...

The tornado you posted a video of, the prelim storm surveys suggested it was an EF-3. Scary. Andrew, I hope you are doing well and I hope all problems have been fixed. Thanks for the excellent work!!!

ERN WX said...

The most amazing thing from yesterday's outbreak is that so far nobody has been killed. I hope it remains that way. Some of those supercells were very strong.

ERN WX said...

Thankfully today hasn't had nearly as much svr wx. Yesterday was a bad day. Not because of number, but strength and the tornadoes hitting populace areas.

mike paulocsak said...

This day 25 years ago,an area in Ohio was recovering from a MASSIVE SNOWSTORM FROM Columbus northeast up through Akron/Canton south to Zanesville through Athens Ohio.RECORD SNOWFALL FOR COLUMBUS AND AKRON!I remember like it was yesterday.This region received a record breaking snowfall that tallied up to 17"-20" of snow.This was HEART ATTACK snow.Another words shoveling it was like shoveling water logged mud.April 04,1987 this occured.

ERN WX said...

Snow this late is very rare for your area and mine. That was indeed an epic snowstorm. I think we could use a storm like that. Just with drier snow! Snow water ratio were really low with that storm. That storm was nothing where I lived compared to your area. I am confident Ohio will receive an 8+ inch snowstorm this year. Probably late December or early January. It still is too early to precisely call though. Take care, Mike!!!

mike paulocsak said...

Hello ERN WX.I was a litte hesitant to post this certain storm that occured.We all know how judging people can be.We learned that this past wunter.Take care!

mike paulocsak said...

OOPS,spelled winter wrong.Thought i would mention that.Hit the wrong key!

cw said...

when will the severe weather happen in va and will there be an active year of severe weather there?

ERN WX said...

CW, there will be severe wx for your area this month right into fall.