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March to Spring 2015? Models/Forecasts for March in the Valley.


John1122

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Looks like we could see some flurries next weekend.

From OHX this afternoon

 

ON FRIDAY...THE GFS STILL LOOKS PRETTY AGGRESSIVE WITH THE COLDER

850MB TEMPS AND BACKSIDE PRECIP BUT HAS BACKED OFF A BIT. THE

ECMWF HAS GOTTEN A BIT COLDER...SO BOTH MODELS NOW HAVE BELOW 0C

850MB TEMPS FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY MORNING OR SO. LOW TEMPS SATURDAY

MORNING ARE NOW AROUND 30 TO 35 DEGREES ACROSS THE CWA. PRECIP

LOOKS TO BE EARLY IN THE OVERNIGHT HOURS WHILE TEMPS ARE ABOVE

FREEZING...SO DONT HAVE MENTION OF SNOW JUST YET.

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From OHX this afternoon

 

ON FRIDAY...THE GFS STILL LOOKS PRETTY AGGRESSIVE WITH THE COLDER

850MB TEMPS AND BACKSIDE PRECIP BUT HAS BACKED OFF A BIT. THE

ECMWF HAS GOTTEN A BIT COLDER...SO BOTH MODELS NOW HAVE BELOW 0C

850MB TEMPS FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY MORNING OR SO. LOW TEMPS SATURDAY

MORNING ARE NOW AROUND 30 TO 35 DEGREES ACROSS THE CWA. PRECIP

LOOKS TO BE EARLY IN THE OVERNIGHT HOURS WHILE TEMPS ARE ABOVE

FREEZING...SO DONT HAVE MENTION OF SNOW JUST YET.

I'm not getting my hopes up but it's nice to have the possibility of snow flurries this late in the year.
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CLIMATE...THE AVERAGE DATE OF THE LAST FREEZE IN THE SPRING IN
NASHVILLE IS APRIL 6TH. THE LATEST LAST FREEZE DATE ON RECORD IS
APRIL 25TH 1910.

HERE`S A LIST OF THE RECENT LAST-FREEZE DATES IN NASHVILLE:

2014:APRIL16TH  (31 DEGREES)
2013:MARCH 27TH (28)
2012:MARCH 6TH  (31)
2011:MARCH 25TH (31)
2010:MARCH 7TH  (26)
2009:MARCH 21ST (30)
2008:APRIL 15TH (31)
2007:APRIL 10TH (32)

 

Saw this on the Nashville disco

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CLIMATE...THE AVERAGE DATE OF THE LAST FREEZE IN THE SPRING IN

NASHVILLE IS APRIL 6TH. THE LATEST LAST FREEZE DATE ON RECORD IS

APRIL 25TH 1910.

HERE`S A LIST OF THE RECENT LAST-FREEZE DATES IN NASHVILLE:

2014:APRIL16TH  (31 DEGREES)

2013:MARCH 27TH (28)

2012:MARCH 6TH  (31)

2011:MARCH 25TH (31)

2010:MARCH 7TH  (26)

2009:MARCH 21ST (30)

2008:APRIL 15TH (31)

2007:APRIL 10TH (32)

 

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Interesting to see 4/25/1910 as Nashville's latest freeze on record. That is the exact same last freeze way down in Atlanta, too! ATL and much of the SE had a freak accumulating snow that day with over 1" at ATL and 4" at Marietta, GA!

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Interesting to see 4/25/1910 as Nashville's latest freeze on record. That is the exact same last freeze way down in Atlanta, too! ATL and much of the SE had a freak accumulating snow that day with over 1" at ATL and 4" at Marietta, GA!

That was the latest freeze for Memphis also,with the latest sn fall on record

 

http://www.memphisweather.net/alltime-records.shtml

 

 

April 25 1910- Temperature at Nashville drops to 32 -- the latest freeze ever. Snowfall measuring 1½" also represents the greatest one-day snowfall for April, and is the latest date for measureable snowfall.

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I should say that snow map is not all snow.I'm not sure if I am allowed to post the ones from paid sites that show snow,ice and zr.It says in the rules not to but I have seen them posted so maybe someone could fill me in on that as I would like to post them if I am allowed to.

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Unsettled is the weather word for this week. Rains chances abound but nothing too heavy it appears. At least down into the southern TN valley and into north GA.

 

I'm watching the models closely as we're hoping to get a three night camping trip in later this week.  The rain seems to be trending towards a shorter duration event, right now it looks like a mainly Friday night deal whereas before it was an all day and night 2 inch soaker.  Fingers crossed we can salvage a decent trip.

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From MRX:

 

LONG TERM (WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY)...SURFACE RIDGE SHIFTS
EAST WITH INCREASED SOUTHWESTERLY LAYER FLOW AS A WEAK SHORT WAVE
MOVES EAST THROUGH THE TN VALLEY ON THURSDAY. DIURNAL HEATING
SUFFICIENT FOR LOW END INSTABILITY AND AIR MASS THUNDERSTORMS. LOW
AMPLIFIES JET SEGMENT AT BOTTOM OF LONG WAVE TROUGH MOVES EAST
THROUGH LOWER OH VALLEY ON FRIDAY. THIS FEATURE WILL PROVIDE GOOD
LIFT AND MODERATE LAYER SHEAR AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA
FRIDAY EVENING. ONGOING ORGANIZED CONVECTION WILL LIKELY MOVE
THROUGH THE AREA LATE FRIDAY. SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS A
GOOD BET WITH THESE STORMS.
HIGH PRESSURE AND A COOLER AIR MASS
BUILDS INTO THE AREA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEKEND. GRADUAL
WARMING TREND INTO NEXT WEEK. PRECIPITATION CHANCES WILL ALSO SLOWLY
INCREASE INTO THE MID WEEK.
 

 

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DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK 
   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   0102 AM CDT THU APR 02 2015

   VALID 021200Z - 031200Z

   ...THERE IS AN ENH RISK OF SVR TSTMS FROM THE OZARKS EWD INTO THE
   LOWER OH VALLEY...

   ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS FROM SERN KS/NERN OK EWD ACROSS
   THE MID MS AND OH VALLEYS...

   ...THERE IS A MRGL RISK OF SVR TSTMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE LOWER
   MO...MID MS AND OH VALLEYS AND INTO THE SERN STATES...

   ...SUMMARY...
   SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED
   TORNADOES ARE EXPECTED FROM THE OZARKS EASTWARD ACROSS THE LOWER
   OHIO VALLEY DURING THE DAY AND INTO THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD.

   ...SYNOPSIS...
   A BROAD AREA OF WSWLY FLOW ALOFT WILL EXIST ACROSS CONUS WITH TWO
   MAIN SHORTWAVE TROUGHS. ONE WILL DEVELOP EWD ACROSS THE UPPER MS
   VALLEY AND GREAT LAKES WITH SURFACE LOW OVER ONTARIO BUT A COLD
   FRONT WILL TRAIL SWD ACROSS LOWER MI...IL AND MO BY LATE AFTERNOON.
   SRN PORTIONS OF THIS FRONT ARE FORECAST TO STALL AND BECOME
   QUASI-STATIONARY OVER SRN MO. TO THE W...A SECONDARY TROUGH WILL
   MOVE ACROSS THE FOUR CORNERS STATES DURING THE DAY WITH A SFC LOW
   DEVELOPING OVER SRN CO BY AFTERNOON. THIS WAVE IS FORECAST TO SHIFT
   EWD ACROSS KS/OK AND INTO SWRN MO/NWRN AR BY 12Z FRI AND INTERACT
   WITH THE BOUNDARY OVER SRN MO.

   AHEAD OF THESE AFOREMENTIONED BOUNDARIES...DEWPOINTS WELL INTO THE
   60S F WILL SPREAD NWD ACROSS THE ARKLATEX WITH 60S AS FAR N AS SRN
   KS INTO SRN INDIANA. THIS WILL CREATE A LARGE AREA OF INSTABILITY
   BENEATH AMPLE SHEAR PROFILES WITH SCATTERED SEVERE STORMS THROUGH
   THE PERIOD.

   ...MID MS INTO THE OH VALLEY...
   SCATTERED STORMS WILL LIKELY BE ONGOING ALONG THE DECELERATING COLD
   FRONT/OUTFLOW COMPOSITE ACROSS IL AND MO WITH SOME MARGINAL
   WIND/HAIL THREAT ONGOING. THE GREATER THREAT WILL BE LATER IN THE
   AFTERNOON AS DESTABILIZATION OCCURS TO THE E OVER ACROSS SRN
   IL...INDIANA...WRN KY AND SERN MO. A REJUVENATION OF STORMS IS
   LIKELY ALONG THE FRONT/OUTFLOW...AND VEERING WINDS WITH HEIGHT WILL
   BE SUFFICIENT FOR SUPERCELLS AND A FEW BOWING SEGMENTS. LARGE
   HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND PERHAPS A TORNADO OR TWO WILL ALL BE
   POSSIBLE.

   ...FAR SERN KS...NERN OK...SRN MO AND NRN AR OVERNIGHT...
   STRONG INSTABILITY WILL DEVELOP DUE TO THE ADVECTION/PRODUCTION OF
   MID TO UPPER 60S F DEWPOINTS INTO ERN OK...AR...AND SRN MO DURING
   THE DAY. HOWEVER...MOST OF THIS AREA WILL REMAIN CAPPED. HEIGHT
   FALLS ALOFT WILL PERSIST OVERNIGHT WITH THE APPROACHING UPPER
   TROUGH...AND SOME HIGH BASED AND/OR ELEVATED STORMS ARE LIKELY TO
   FORM OVER KS AND CONTINUE EWD N OF THE SFC LOW. AS THIS ENHANCED
   AREA OF FORCING INTERACTS WITH THE STALLED FRONT OVER SERN KS/NERN
   OK/SRN MO...AN ERUPTION OF SEVERE STORMS IS EXPECTED. FORECAST
   SOUNDINGS SHOW VERY STEEP LAPSE RATES ALOFT AND STRONG
   INSTABILITY...AS WELL AS STRENGTHENING AND VEERING SHEAR PROFILES.
   PARTICULARLY DAMAGING WINDS...VERY LARGE HAIL...AND PERHAPS A
   TORNADO OR TWO WILL ALL BE POSSIBLE WITH TORNADO THREAT DEPENDENT
   MAINLY ON THE STABILITY OF THE SURFACE AIR.

   ...FL...GA...NRN AL...
   A WEAK SRN-STREAM DISTURBANCE WILL AFFECT FL WITHIN AN OTHERWISE
   WEAKLY AND BROADLY CYCLONIC FLOW REGIME ALOFT. TEMPERATURES ALOFT
   WILL BE QUITE COOL...NEAR -15 C OVER NRN FL. THIS WILL FOSTER THE
   DEVELOPMENT OF MODERATE INSTABILITY IN CONJUNCTION WITH STRONG
   SURFACE HEATING. THE JUXTAPOSITION OF WEAK SELY SURFACE WINDS AND
   WLY FLOW ALOFT MAY YIELD A FEW VIGOROUS CELLS CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL.

   ...NRN TX...
   A RELATIVELY ZONAL FLOW REGIME WILL EXIST OVER N TX DURING THE DAY
   WITH DRYLINE MIXING EWD TO JUST W OF I-35. STRONG HEATING WILL OCCUR
   IN THIS ZONE AND CIN IS EXPECTED TO BECOME NEGLIGIBLE BY LATE
   AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH CONVERGENCE WILL BE WEAK...HEATING IS EXPECTED
   TO HELP ONE OR TWO POTENTIALLY SEVERE STORMS TO DEVELOP. ANY STORMS
   THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE SUPERCELLS PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL.
   HOWEVER...THE THREAT APPEARS TOO CONDITIONAL FOR A SLIGHT RISK AT
   THIS TIME.

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DAY 2 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK 
   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   1258 AM CDT THU APR 02 2015

   VALID 031200Z - 041200Z

   ...THERE IS AN ENH RISK OF SVR TSTMS FROM THE TN VALLEY AREA SWWD
   ACROSS NRN MS/NWRN AR/SERN AR/NERN LA...

   ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS FROM THE MID OH VALLEY SWWD
   INTO E TX...

   ...THERE IS A MRGL RISK OF SVR TSTMS FROM THE UPPER OH VALLEY SWWD
   TO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY OF S TX...

   ...SUMMARY...
   SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FROM THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION
   SOUTHWESTWARD INTO THE EASTERN HALF OF TEXAS FRIDAY; SOME OF THESE
   STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE DURING THE AFTERNOON FROM THE
   WEST SLOPES OF THE APPALACHIANS INTO TEXAS.

   ...SYNOPSIS...
   WHILE A GULF OF AK UPPER LOW/TROUGH SHIFTS SSEWD ALONG THE BC COAST
   AND BEGINS AFFECTING THE PAC NW...A SECOND TROUGH IS PROGGED TO
   CONTINUE ADVANCING EWD ACROSS THE MIDWEST/OH VALLEY AREA DAY 2/FRI./

   AT THE SURFACE...A COLD FRONT INITIALLY EXTENDING FROM NEW ENGLAND
   WSWWD INTO OK/TX IS FORECAST TO PROGRESS EWD ACROSS THE TN/MID AND
   LOWER MS/SABINE RIVER VALLEYS WITH TIME.  BY THE END OF THE
   PERIOD...THE FRONT SHOULD STRETCH FROM A DEEPENING LOW OVER SRN NEW
   ENGLAND SWWD ACROSS THE ATLANTIC AND GULF COASTAL AREAS...WHILE
   CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE SETTLES ACROSS THE ERN 2/3 OF THE COUNTRY.

   ...MID OH/TN VALLEYS SWWD ACROSS THE LOWER MS/SABINE VALLEYS...
   CONVECTION SHOULD BE ONGOING AT THE START OF THE PERIOD INVOF THE
   COLD FRONT...FROM THE OZARKS EWD ACROSS THE OH VALLEY.  SOME
   LINGERING SEVERE RISK MAY ACCOMPANY THIS CONVECTION -- PARTICULARLY
   ACROSS THE OZARKS AREA.

   MEANWHILE...AS THE FRONT ADVANCES SEWD THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...SOME
   HEATING OF THE MOIST PRE-FRONTAL BOUNDARY LAYER WILL YIELD MODERATE
   DESTABILIZATION.  THIS SHOULD FUEL EVENTUAL/VIGOROUS STORM
   DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE FRONT BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON...INITIALLY
   WITHIN A ZONE ROUGHLY FROM WRN KY SWWD TO NRN LA.  INITIAL STORMS
   WILL LIKELY BECOME SUPERCELLULAR GIVEN WEAKLY VEERING/INCREASING
   FLOW WITH HEIGHT YIELD SHEAR FAVORABLE FOR UPDRAFT ROTATION.  THOUGH
   TORNADO RISK SHOULD REMAIN LIMITED DUE TO MODEST LOW-LEVEL SHEAR
   EXPECTED AHEAD OF THE FRONT...LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS
   ARE EXPECTED.  WITH TIME...UPSCALE GROWTH INTO A MORE LINEAR EVENT
   WILL SUPPORT ONGOING DAMAGING WIND RISK INTO THE EVENING HOURS.

   WITH HEATING MUCH MORE UNCERTAIN INTO THE UPPER OH VALLEY AND THUS
   INSTABILITY LIKELY WEAKER...LOWER/LESS WIDESPREAD RISK FOR HAIL/WIND
   IS EXPECTED.  MEANWHILE ACROSS SERN/S TX...STORMS WILL LIKELY REMAIN
   ISOLATED AT BEST ALONG THE BOUNDARY -- WITH MID-LEVEL ASCENT
   REMAINING WELL TO THE N/NE OF THIS REGION AND THUS LIKELIHOOD FOR
   CAPPING TO REMAIN IN PLACE THUS HINDERING DEVELOPMENT.
   STILL...CAPE/SHEAR WOULD BE SUFFICIENT FOR ROTATING UPDRAFTS AND
   ASSOCIATED SEVERE RISK WITH ANY CELL WHICH COULD BECOME EVOLVE
   ACROSS THIS AREA.

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