Tuesday, April 30, 2013

April Showers, not.

April showers bring May flowers and Mayflowers bring pilgrams

In Danbury, we are well below temp wise and critically low, for May flowers, in precip.    Normal high and low for the end of the month is 67/44  Below that is the outlook for rain over the next 10 days.  Less than .01"



                     TOTALS FOR DXR   
HIGHEST TEMPERATURE   76         TOTAL PRECIP        1.21
LOWEST TEMPERATURE    23         TOTAL SNOWFALL       0.0
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE 47.7         NORMAL PRECIP       4.36
DEPARTURE FROM NORM -2.1         % OF NORMAL PRECIP    28
HEATING DEGREE DAYS  494
NORMAL DEGREE DAYS   459 
 
 

Monday, April 22, 2013

May Day

4/21
Hoping this is the last post for the winter season.  Blocking pattern sets up in a week and systems are slow to move out, plus a shot of cold air will enter Canada and slide down around the end of the month.  This picture from the gfs is the temp at 850 and precip.  Keep in mind, for now, that the precip is falling during the day which on May first, would be 99% impossible to accumulate.  But, not sure what may fall either the night before or after. 

Fun to watch - not likely at all to happen. 6zGFS 4-21

Storm 3 - could be the one! (spoiler, it was)

 2/9  Set up is an upper low over TX that heads northeast into TN valley and then transfers off the coast. At the upper levels, there's ...