THEWEATHERMOGIL:: Almost all the weather, all at once
This morning’s national watch-warning map (Fig. 1) shows almost all the weather you’d ever want to see, all at once. Some extreme weather hazards (e.g., hurricane, severe weather, flash flooding and blizzard) are absent; however, just about everything else, “weather,” is expected to occur somewhere across the 48-states.
Wind advisories and high fire weather alerts (on the west side of a strong high-pressure system) cover much of the Central Plains and parts of the Mississippi River Valley; on the east side of the high (and within the high), frost and freeze alerts had been posted for early today. We won’t be seeing these again, so far south and east, anytime soon.
A storm system coming out of the Rockies is expected to spread snow across the north-central Plains eastward to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan by tonight into Wednesday. As expected, the winter weather advisories from this morning, were upgraded to winter storm warnings today. Some parts of Wisconsin may see eight inches of snow or more.
Out west, a potpourri of wind and winter weather scenarios is scattered across highly variable terrain.
Stay tuned. More swings and extremes in weather are on the horizon.
© 2016 H. Michael Mogil
Originally posted 3/22/16