Tuesday Morning . . .
>> Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Wow what a storm system out there this morning. By now you've probably seen some of the national reporters in places like Oklahoma City, or Dallas, or maybe into St Louis and Chicago. This is one of the biggest storms to hit the central US in quite some time. Tons of snow and unfortunately a lot of ice as well. Of course on the southern end of things you have some strong storms and heavy rain, and a pretty nasty squall line moving through east Texas at the moment heading over towards me here in New Orleans. Look at this radar image from around 8:15 central time this morning . . .
Just a beast. The surface low we talked about yesterday is actually a little farther south, now in extreme northeast Texas as opposed to northwestern Arkansas. This means a little better chance for severe weather in the gulf south, and much of the southern part of that squall line has a severe thunderstorm warning associated with it.
Of course all this activity is heading east over the next couple of days, and quickly. Look for rain across much of North Carolina by later this afternoon and into tonight. Most of that should be clearing out through the morning tomorrow. This system will also bring some blustery conditions. As a matter of fact a wind advisory is in effect for the extreme western part of the state, basically Asheville westward. Look out for winds gusting into the 30s by tonight and tomorrow.
After that . . . our attention will turn to the end of the week. Another smaller storm will bring moisture into the area by later Thursday through Saturday morning. At this point most of the activity looks like rain. However some wintry precip will be possible on Saturday morning as colder air moves in, and Friday night in some of the colder spots.
Hope everybody has a great day! If anything big happens I'll be back with an update. Getting ready for this squall line here over the next few hours in the NOLA (New Orleans).
4 comments:
Thank you for the update, very nice job. I guess considering what the Midwest is getting, we should be lucky to be getting the rain.
Does anyone else find it annoying that really big snows were to the north, south, east, and west of the peidmont triad this winter?? Raleigh, Charlote, almost all of VA, and of course the mountains all had 6+ inch snows. The most I could find in the triad was 5.5 and that was the Christmas Day Storm. We got ripped off this year. I only had 4 on my back porch in Winston Salem on Christmas Day. That is the most I've seen all year. Looks like one more week of cold next week, then winter's done!! Ah, the frustrations of snow lovers in the south :)
-Chuck
I have found that quite annoying this year. Some say that we normally get the bigger snows so this is pay back, but that makes no sense to me. We hit the jackpot with a white Christmas but other than we have been Jacked around all winter. Hopefully one of those late Feb. Whoppers hits here and no where else. Just one big snow could over the triad that sits there for a week or so.
-D.S.
When you don't review your comments before publishing them you will have typo's. This is one of my biggest pet peeves, and guess what. My last post was full of grammatic errors, mispellings, and plain ol' typo's. I apologize. The last statement of my last post should have read as follows: Hopefully one of those late February WHOPPERs dumps much snow here in the Triad and leaves CLT, RDU and the rest high and dry. Just one big snow cloud over the
Triad that sits there for a week or so. Monitoring...
D.S.
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