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Pattern April Showers

25 degrees in Kansas City in the middle of the afternoon in April. Not sure thats ever happened before.
 
Front just hit here mid 70s to low 40s by tonight

Places in Oklahoma stuck in the 30s with freezing drizzle crazy
 
A little late in the year for this, but ... what the heck ...

Ph 8 MJO ...
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AO dipping down ..

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PNA ending slightly positive ...

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So what the heck could go wrong ... LOL ... :eek:
 
Brent said:
Feels like winter again here how i missed you lol

Never thought I'd see the term arctic cold front in the NWS discussion in April tbh lol
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I've figured out why the wintry threats and cool snaps are continuing: the SouthernWx snow icons. As long as they stay, the cool and wintry threats will continue. So, long live the snow icons!
 
SoutheastRidge said:
I wonder if April has ever been colder than February in Atlanta.
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Not since records started in 1879. The closest to this I could find is 1997, when April was only 6.6 warmer than Feb. However, April has been cooler than March six times by my count.
 
I honestly don't care if North Carolina somehow manages to get a foot plus of snow sometime soon, but I'm just done with the back and forth in temps. I'd like to have consistency rather it being 82 one day and in the low 50s the next, as an example.

I have pretty good reason for it. I adjust pretty quickly to a temp range, and I'm pretty sure the swinging back and forth gives me a headache and may have helped fuel some sinus issues for me.

They can have all the snow they like, but if it causes my temps to be in the high 50s-low 60s with it being gray/damp/windy, no reward for being well below average this late, I will be very frustrated.
 
that wind bites tonight, it was somehow 73 earlier

Back to the 70s Tuesday then we plunge again lol
 
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o_O
 
Hellacious April ice storm in CAE per 00z GFS. No way, no way. That can just go on away now with the growing season coming into effect.

Here was the 18z GEFS mean:
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the crazy thing is this isn't 10 days away... I think it's just a one run aberration though... will see if there's any support from Euro and tomorrow's runs.
 
SoutheastRidge said:
Was there a massive volcano eruption somewhere? Maybe that would explain this bizarre weather. Snow in April is just ridiculous.
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Let's hope it's the new normal. I might learn to like spring again, instead of as the hated precursor of the more hated summer :) And I believe I could learn to love summer if we had some nice 50 degree days sprinkled in. And I can't believe I'm saying it but I could learn to love April ice storms, lol, even bads ones, just for the contrary nature of it :)
 
This is a pretty potent cold air mass though from Canada for April... there's no doubting that much. How far south can it push is the question.
 
whamby said:
This is a pretty potent cold air mass though from Canada for April... there's no doubting that much. How far south can it push is the question.
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I will say they doubted the cold would make it here and well it did... so there's that

a few days ago they were throwing out the cold solutions completely
 
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Fly in the ointment. The ensemble mean looks even more from the 00z than the 18z GFS:

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Here are the members. Nothing too nutty, some being skewed.. but the GFS members have been bouncing around showing Wintry pretty far South off and on for a few days now. Regardless of precipitation type, I am seeing some hard freezes for a lot of areas per GFS.. bye bye tomaters if it happened to be right.

Here is a snippet for KCAE"s discussion recently:
The MEX guidance for CAE had a high of
82 forecast for Saturday on the 12z run and now has a high of 51
on the 00z run, a 30 degree change from the previous run! Will
again opt to keep a persistent forecast going given the
uncertainty and see if this trend continues on the GFS or if it
is an anomalous run.
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I would also like to note that the 00z Euro is latching on to a very quirky situation for NC especially... but it has a Wintry idea from the surface/2m maps. Only two members of the EPS had "wintry" down here into the CAE region though.. but NC & TN might be well in play if this keeps up.

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Here is the 00z EPS Mean:

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My current forecast for Saturday is rain is 49 degrees, which is pretty crazy already. If a winter storm does happen then I'll accept a torch for the entirety of next winter.
 
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