Here is the latest radar imagery. A line of thunderstorms developed along the Kansas/Missouri border. This marginal activity showed high enough reflectivity in radar for a severe thunderstorm watch to be issued for western Missouri (the area circled in red). The line of storms is already starting to weaken and the Storm Prediction Center does not feel that another watch will be posted.
Ahead of this wet weather is a stretch of clear skies (circled in pink). We will tap into some sunshine around lunchtime and into the early afternoon hours. This line of activity should reach us between 4-7pm. The farther it moves away from the tightly wound area of low pressure in western Nebraska, the more it will weaken and lose its borderline severe characteristics. These showers should throw a tenth or two of liquid at us, which is not enough to raise flooding concerns.
On a side note, I am looking at skycam right now and it still shows a mainly frozen over Rock River. As this continues to thin out and eventually break up we may have to watch out for some ice jams. With the potential for some heavier rainfall coming Wednesday, this is a situation that we will blog about more in the next day or two. -ADAM
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From Madison, WI ... its not nearly as warm or sunny as I had hoped today. Left Beloit this morning optimistically w/out an overcoat ... but the temp seems not to have risen much since this a.m. and the skies have been grey all morning.
Now that we have this early taste of spring and the snow has pretty much all melted except for some snow piles and half our backyard still has snow, I am ready for one big snowstorm before spring officially starts next month.
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