It’s that time again!
For those of you who don’t remember the irreverent, and hilarious, show Animaniacs, at the end of nearly every show they would spin the “Wheel of Morality” to figure out what “today’s lesson” from the show actually was. Generally it was equally as nonsensical as the show.
For our use, it is just a fun (cheesy) way to highlight things we can learn from the latest weather data.
No snow
Yup. That pretty much sums it up. There will be a pretty decent cool down as we head through next week, but there won’t be any precipitation around when temperatures dip below the freezing mark. And even if temperatures at the surface dip below freezing and there is a chance for precipitation – it still wouldn’t snow. Because our atmosphere will be too warm aloft for the snow to stay as snow all the way through the column of the entire atmosphere. So while there is available moisture in the Dendritic Growth Zone, the snowflakes would melt before making it to the ground.
So where did the rumors for snow come from?
Honestly, I’m not sure. The last few runs of model data haven’t shown a chance for any frozen precipitation in teh area – or even the region. But perhaps the models did a few days ago and I missed it. I know I’ve heard from a few people that The Weather Channel said something about it. But I never found evidence of that (not to say it isn’t true, I just can’t report that I saw it).
Please keep in mind that a lot of the standard weather apps – even the one from The Weather Channel – just ‘grip and rip’ computer weather model data. And then re-package it on their app and kick it out as a forecast.
But, as a lot of you have learned over the years, weather model data is not the same as a forecast.
Will it at least be cold?
Depending on your definition of cold, it may e. At the very least it will be much cooler than it has been the last few days.
