Severe storm outbreak today.

Severe storms to strike our area today. With a strong cold front approaching from the west combined with the southern flow from the jet stream and warm moist air in place has set the stage for some powerful storms this afternoon.


Today

Windy with strong thunderstorms likely this afternoon. Damaging winds with some storms. High 81F. Winds SSW at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 90%.

This outbreak is the first of the season and should be a good one. With cold air aloft there is the possibility of hail is likely with hail almost always come high winds. A good rule of thumb for a storm is: take the speed of the storm and times it by two and that is the highest possible winds the storm can produce ahead of the storm. So a storm moving 30mph is capable of producing winds up to 60mph. This danger of high winds is increased today because the southern jet stream is already supplying high winds ahead of the storms causing uplift and rotation. Be on the lookout for tornado watches and warnings this afternoon.

Spring is in the AIR!

So as I said before a nice strong high pressure system has set in and so has the warm weather. At this point and time winter is over, I still would not be surprised to see one more winter weather event. But this week is going to be NICE! Just as a heads up the first chance of rain is Sunday and the beginning of March look cooler than normal. So we will see.

Could it BE? Spring?

I think it could be, but not yet this week is going to be warm! I'm enjoying it already, we had a game today and it was awesome. We won. More about the weather though enjoy the warm dry weather because this high pressure will move out and some cooler weather will move back into the picture by the end of the month. I think that we will have one more snow/ice event before it is all said and done.  but untill that comes around go plays some golf!

This week.

5-Day Forecast for 28146

Wednesday, 9

43 | 29° F

Partly Cloudy

Thursday, 10

43 | 27° F

Chance of Snow

Friday, 11

47 | 27° F

Partly Cloudy

Saturday, 12

52 | 27° F

Clear

Sunday, 13 

58 | 32° F

Clear

Source: NWS at 9:34 PM EST on February 8, 2011

Regional Forecast for Rowan

Thursday's snow.

Well this storm is nothing to shout about, but I think I'm going to. We are going to see 2-4 inches and thats going to be on the high side but I'm guessing that the models are underestimating this on. The snow will start out over night on wed and should be done by noon on Thursday. I think the new GFS models will be a little more supportive of my theory.  Heres's a look at wed night.



so lets all hope that the models are underscoring this one and we get out of class on Thursday.