Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Did Someone Say Defrosting This Weekend?

Good Morning!

Dare I say, maybe some milder weather is finally on the way next week!?  I'm not sure I want to get people excited with the way the winter has gone, but it sure looks like we finally start to see a break in the nasty winter pattern.  Let's take a deeper dive.

CLOUDS, MAYBE A BIT OF SNOW FOR NOW:  Forecast model data continues to keep us in the variably cloudy skies, with perhaps a bit of light snow in the area.  We didn't even see a flurry during the day yesterday, though skies were cloudy, and there was some good snow just north of the blog area, with places such as Mount Pleasant and Clare picking up a couple of inches.  From what I see here on the perch, clouds stay with us, and we still need to leave the mention of a few flurries or even some light snow in the mix for now.  It looks like the better chance of that is along and south of I-94 today.  We stay fairly dry and quiet after today thanks to some...

MILDER WEATHER COMING?:  Again, based on this winter, I sure hate to be overly optimistic, but forecast models are indicating some changes to a milder regime.  First, the storms that were supposed to roll through late this week according to computer models that ran earlier on in the week have pretty much vanished for now.  Between a 1036 millibar high relaxing a north of us in Canada, ridging pushing milder air at us from the south later this week and beyond, and not much moist air to do anything with, any disturbances that try to get in here and start something just get the energy sucked right out of them and basically dampen out.  Here's a peek at temperatures around the nation right now:


Accordingly, we should start to clear the skies out this evening and into Thursday.  If forecast models have a handle on everything, we jump from mid to upper 20's today and tomorrow to almost 40 for Friday, and then our first real shot at breaking 40 in quite some time shows up for early next week!

LOOKING DOWN THE LINE:  After we get through the nice, quiet part of early next week with not much other than some passing clouds on Monday and perhaps Wednesday, some precipitation could develop toward the tail end of the week as we count down the days toward Spring.

And here's a fairly quiet (for now) forecast for Jackson and surrounding areas including Parma and Leslie:




And here's the best looking six day planner I have seen in quite awhile:


I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!  Blessings

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