Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Severe Threat Exits. Heading for Seasonal Temperatures and Quieter Conditions

What an active day it was across the Southeast.  We had plenty of severe weather to work with for the afternoon and evening hours as the cold front pushed through associated with the persistent gusty winds out ahead, which made things worse in the occurrence of an thunderstorm.  Winds gusting up to 50+ were reported from numerous locations and even some moderate hail in the mix for a few areas.  Nonetheless, it was an exhausting experience staying on the top of the latest development of the threat and has now diminished and is well off into the Atlantic.  We should have clearing conditions as the hours progress as of this post.  Could be a bit of fog to deal with but quickly scoured.

Next chance of rain looks to be during the upcoming weekend with another possible threat for storminess but that remains to be uncertain at this point.  0z GFS hints this during March 7th on that Sunday so we'll see.  We could enter an active period for the month of March with plenty of precipitation chances and cooler weather.  Don't see anything wintry in the long range as of now.  We have been known to receive March snows out of nowhere but won't bet the farm on that this go around...not yet at least.  Nonetheless, we need the rain and this could prove helpful to rid the drought that has been increasing.  With Meteorological Winter closed off, we now look toward the Spring period to offer our rain chances.

Take care folks.

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