Tom

The weather enthusiasts we are...

A drip of info from nature on what we could be seeing at times next winter???? I know some peeps on here believe, as I do, that nature does drop some clues for the later parts of the year. This STJ signal mirrors what a Nino pattern does and it would be ideal to set up those high lat blocks. One can dream up a 500mb pattern like this for snow lovers.

My brother was in the basement with his kids and TOR sirens flaring non stop. Dog was going nuts and freaking out the whole time. It was a wild evening in the Chicago area with torrential rains and winds.

What the heck? LOL, sucks for those ppl who had their cars buried... https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/cars-are-emerging-from-a-massive-boston-area-snow-pile-months-after-winter-storms/1882778

That's like being in the eye of the storm! Thanks for sharing your story and pics/vids...you know the saying, when it rains it pours! To much of a good thing all at once! I will say, though, this pattern could be repeating right around the 4th of July holiday so something to pay attn to as we role into summer.

That massive supercell to your SW I’m sure looks mean

@Hawkeye also in a TOR warn!

@OttumwaSnomow I think is getting whipped on the southeast side of town…

JMA weeklies and the majority of the Global Models are all suggesting high latitude blocking a major trough pattern over the Central CONUS for Week 2. A rather active an unseasonably cool pattern is shaping up to close out the month, especially out here in the southwest which has been non existent for a very long time. Hope we can cash in on some troughs digging into the 4 corners. Temp/Precip....

Heckova CO Low showing up in the LR for late next week...gotta love the big blocks showing up in Canada and Greenland...this time of year is the epitome of Omega Blocks as a result of the slowing jet stream. Good luck trying to track these powerhouse storms but one things is for certain, I really see a whacky blocky pattern shaping up for the last week of April into May. Everything from retrograding troughs, occluding lows, Omega Blocks and....quite possibly some April snow flakes??? Fun, fun, fun times if you like tracking big storms and blocking patterns.

It's down into the low/mid 50's this morning and it feels like a cool & crisp Midwest morning...in fact, I just checked some weather stations in the valley and there are number of upper 40's showing up near Paradise Valley! I find it interesting bc in this area there are more pine trees, palm trees and grass that allow temps to tank quicker at night. On very calm nights like we had, the air has a tendency to really pool in the desert.

Was this the rope TOR that dropped for a short period? I saw it touch down live on Fox Wx TV from a storm chaser following that cell.

My sister flew back this morning and she said it is a very warm and humid morning out there today. Summer feel for sure.

Tuesday looks like a Big Boomer day for sure...that trough coming out of the CO Rockies and juicy air in the middle of the country is a textbook severe wx threat. Not to mention, but there's that CO low ejecting out into the Plains!!

It is the coolest morning in over a week when we broke the heat wave prior to Easter weekend. It's in the upper 50's and the windows are open letting in some fresh cool air. Looking forward to the reprieve from the Heat over the next few days this coming week.