cRaZy Easter weather!

Crazy weather we're having... I just can't get over it. Reports out of Alabama are that it snowed last night... Snow... in Alabama?! In April?! Mike even has video. Check it out in Mike's Alabama Weather blog. Of course, here in South Georgia, we had no snow... just before sunrise, my weather station read 41 degrees. Not too bad, still cold... For tonight, they have done it... they issued the "f" word watch. Temps are expected tonight to reach freezing or just below for a short time... (1 - 4 hours). Egg hunting should be miserable tomorrow morning... TODAY WILL BE A BRISK DAY WITH STRONG COLD AIR ADVECTION KEEPING TEMPS MOST AREAS IN THE 50S. Brisk... not my ideal choice for describing an April day... Happy Easter Eve... Of all the crazy things, we have a cook out scheduled for this evening... lovely weather for a cook out... We might cook out, but we'll certainly be eating in. I don't do cold. Models are still putting temps at mid-20's, but they have backed off that and opted for the much milder (HA!) slightly below freezing... The current record low for April is 29 degrees, set back in 1885. It's isn't far-fetched to think that we might break that record... Perfect day tomorrow for a picnic, eh? Add a little rain to the forecast (which I should mention, they have... slight chance) [EXPECT A BROAD AREA OF OVERRUNNING PCPN... MAINLY IN THE FORM OF RAIN BEGINNING OVER THE PANHANDLE ZONES LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND GRADUALLY SPREADING E/NE SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY.], and you've got yourself a cancelled picnic... Perhaps, we should just go for Chinese and call it a day.... The guys go on to say... CANNOT RULE OUT A FEW EMBEDDED TSTMS MONDAY AFTERNOON. We can use the rain... so I'm not complianing. We'll see what comes of it though... Things should become more April-like temperature-wise after Tuesday morning... here's hoping.

Moving on to the long term AFD: ...LOOKS LIKE A RATHER UNSETTLED START TO THE EXTENDED FCST AS ANOTHER SHORT WAVE IMPACTS THE SERN STATES... EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND TSTMS WITH THIS SYSTEM. FAST ON ITS HEELS IS ANOTHER MORE POTENT SHORT WAVE AND ASSOCIATED TROUGH WHICH SWINGS THROUGH THE CWFA ON WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WIND SHEAR AND INSTABILITY PARAMETERS SUGGEST A THREAT OF STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE TSTMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. Hey, did they just tell me that I might have a storm chasing opportunity here in South Georgia on Wednesday??? Did they just put a possibility of severe tstms in the discussion for our CWA??? Stay tuned folks, we might just have ourselves a storm. It should push out by Thursday/Friday as a high pressure system rolls in from the west, bringing with it dry air, but rain chances return on Saturday... great... driving day. Of course.

Where's Waldo? Last night, as hubby and I were headed off to bed after watching "Pursuit of Happyness" (great movie, very touching story of determination and the resultant potential for success...), the doggone dog had beat us into the room and set up shop, getting all snug and settled, and then, he looked up at me, as if to say, "What'd I do?" Crazy doggone dog! Anyway, since I have no really cool weather shots, on account of the complete lack of weather, I figured I'd share.

Happy Easter Eve, I will be cleaning and then, it's off to the cook out/eat in for some fun with friends... I will even have the rare opportunity to karaoke, unfortunate for everyone else. lol I think first, I will sit through the Skew-T lesson linked on Mike S.'s blog... you know how I like to learn new things... Kelly already gave me a good lesson about reading subsidence inversion (the famous "cap") on the Skew-T, but I figure a good refresher is always good. Maybe, after learning more about the cap, I can derive ways to break it... lol

Update: I am about halfway through my lesson, and my brain is fried... I have learned more about different temperatures and convective levels than I ever thought possible. I have just learned specifically why there are no clouds... Our current CCL (Convective Condensation Level - obtained by tracking the surface dewpoint temperature along the saturation mixing-ratio line until it intersects with the temperature sounding... that hPa is the CCL... y'all this is heavy stuff... don't follow the link unless you're really into the science of it... so much math, I can't help but enjoy it) is sufficiently high to preclude us reaching a high enough Convective Temperature to allow the formation of convection... and that is confirmed by the absolute lack of clouds in the sky.

Have a great day!
~Dewdrop