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Pattern April Thread

Models have been showing another decent temperature gradient tomorrow, with low 80s for DFW and mid 50s for Wichita Falls during peak heating.
 
NorthDFWwx said:
With the +PNA / -NAO / -AO, that may trend cooler as we get closer in.

What happens to the MJO will be key. If it goes into Phase 6 (which is what the GFS thinks will happen), then all bets are off for a warm pattern.
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While a +PNA can still cool us off (and probably still will), wavelengths are much much shorter this time of the year vs winter, a +PNA with a block on top probably favors a cutoff, especially with the deep vortex hanging around Alaska, but if the pacific jet retracts any, we are probably gonna get a very cool longwave trough, the icon solution makes sense because with those wedge boundary setups when they back off, it normally gets really warm for a couple of days
 
Tarheel1 said:
I hope the icon is better with heat than it is with precip! It’s a little early to bring heat weenie dreams up, because of the icon! ?
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Not a dream at all, 80 right now and going up, upper 80s mon and tues ?
 
NorthDFWwx said:
The new 30-yer averages do give credence to the feeling that the start/end of seasons has shifted forward about 1 month, with April trending cooler and October trending warmer.
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Yeap the state fair is still humid and hot when it used to be nice and dry with temps in the 70s


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Tarheel1 said:
You can have all the 80s and 90s you want! I can’t take that heat anymore! #IOWALIFE?
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Planting season facing big delays given the weather this spring and the coming 2-3 weeks up there . Any planting after May 10 yields a diminished yield of 1.5 tons per week for crops such as sugar beets . ….
 
Lickwx said:
Planting season facing big delays given the weather this spring and the coming 2-3 weeks up there . Any planting after May 10 yields a diminished yield of 1.5 tons per week for crops such as sugar beets . ….
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Yeah, everything is 4-5 weeks behind where we were last year up here! It hit 80 the first week of April and we never had another freezing or below temp until October! This spring has been ridiculously cool/cold! And looks to continue the next 2 weeks and beyond possibly! They tell you to not plant annuals up here until after Mother’s Day, guess I’m hard headed
 
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