Friday, February 28, 2014

Chase Season Open!

It's finally that time of year folks, we are a mere 10 hours away from meteorological spring and the opening of chase season 2014. Unfortunately, the weather doesn't seem to have gotten the memo and subfreezing temps for much of the northern and central Plains look likely for the next two weeks. The overall pattern does not look particularly favorable either, with another ridge setting up over the west coast with broad-scale troughing over the eastern CONUS. The gulf has taken quite a hit from the past few polar fronts which is concerning for early March, but it's so early that we will likely have recovery sometime in mid-March when the flow regime will hopefully change again.

But, even with all the terrible winter weather hanging around, it's still chase season!

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