From a meteorologist’s perspective, this spring has been a very interesting one. Just over the past week to ten days that happened to match up with my time off, we have seen: one of North Carolina’s largest tornado outbreaks, a continuation of wildfire troubles in drought-stricken areas of Texas and Oklahoma, almost a half-foot of snow in some areas of Wisconsin, one of the coldest mid-April afternoons in Chicago in the past 75 years, continued flooding in river basins in parts of the Upper Midwest and northern Plains, and most recently the tornado that hit the St. Louis, MO airport.
Here, we’ve had a few scrapes with severe weather this spring, but certainly nothing like what has been seen elsewhere. The North Carolina tornado outbreak was pretty indicative of how our local weather has been most of this spring; big storms to our west fizzle as they move through here in the overnight and early morning hours, and then the storms re-fire to our east with the heating of a new day. While our weather hasn’t always been “good”…it has been “lucky”, as we’ve escaped major severe weather thanks to a series of fronts that have moved through in the overnight or early morning hours.
It’s possible this pattern will repeat itself soon; a front in the nation’s mid-section right now will be responsible for more severe weather this week, and this front will march through here sometime Wednesday night. Timing will again be everything; the night/early Thursday morning passage that’s currently forecast does not eliminate the severe weather potential for us, but it may limit it as we would get the front during the coolest part of the day.
While this spring has been a rough one for many parts of the country, this weather pattern will calm down as summertime weather moves a bit closer. Until then, let’s hope that if our weather can’t be “good”…that we’ll at least be “lucky”.
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