I was going to add to Jeff's post, but decided to do a new one for ya'll.
Cold, Cold, Cold. Three colds because that's still the number of days the northern tier is going to feel the effects of the last storm system.
A couple of things I'm looking at this morning. Last night I spoke about finally getting some weather from the southwest. This is going to be the dominant weather feature over the next week. A low pressure system looks like it will form over the central US. This system is going to take it's time to develop, but looks like by next Monday, April 7th could begin to produce rain showers. The unfortunate thing, the way I see it, is it's going to impact mostly the areas that don't need the rain - far E OK and AR north into MO and IL, then points east. The northern tier looks like it will break out of the cold weather lock that Canada has on it for a day or two, but only a very small area is really going to benefit from it. As I have said before, we need the dry from the SW. Instead, this developing low pressure system is going to be pulling moisture from the gulf up into the Central US, and altough it's going to be warm, it's going to be difficult with this setup to get our soggy fields up north dry. It's not ideal to be sure. Those that will benefit the most are those in Western MN, Eastern N and S Dakota. I would include NE and KS in this, but probably the last thing they need is hot and dry from the SW, sorry guys. Other that the states I spoke about at the beginning of this (E OK, AR, etc) most everyone else in the plains looks like - at best - hit and miss showers. And those are a week away. Up North the suffering continues....
Jen
