Author Archives: Gregory Goodrich

Snow to rain north, all rain south for KY

A weak surface low supported by a positively tilted trough may bring an accumulating mix of wintry precipitation to the northern half of Kentucky Monday night into early Tuesday. The surface low is expected to track along the Ohio River, … Continue reading

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Legendary Upper Midwest winter to continue

While the Mid-South deals with early season severe weather and a mostly snowless winter, the Upper Midwest will get yet another dose of blizzard conditions and life-threatening cold this weekend.

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Severe weather outbreak – Tuesday morning update

Current radar shows the cold front that sparked a line of convection north of the Ohio River last night is stalling out and retrograding northward. It is expected that this boundary will become a quasistationary warm front that will continue … Continue reading

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Severe weather for the Mid-South late Tuesday

The storm expected to bring more severe weather to the Mid-South late Tuesday shares many characteristics with the storm from the week before, although it is the differences between the storms that could potentially be more worrisome.

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La Nina may persist through next winter

In the recent “ENSO diagnostic discussion“, a weekly must-read for any synoptic meteorologist, the Climate Prediction Center makes the case that La Nina conditions may persist through the fall of 2008 and possibly through winter 2008-09.

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Surprise 8-12″ snowstorm in Iowa Sunday

It is not often when an 8-12″ snowstorm can be considered a “surprise”, but that was the case Sunday in SE Iowa and parts of NW Illinois.

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SE ridge and NW trend cause major snowfall busts in Midwest storm

I have noted many times in this blog over the past year that the models have consistently done a poor job in capturing the strength of the SE ridge and its role in deflecting storms to the northwest of where … Continue reading

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Potent Midwest snowstorm, then mild through mid-February

A very potent winter storm will bring widespread 6″ plus snowfall to the same places that have seen quite a bit of snow the past two winters. The heaviest accumulations from this storm should approach 10″ on an axis from … Continue reading

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Snowless winters in Bowling Green

Thus far, winter has been officially snowless in Bowling Green as only a trace of snow has been measured on a few occasions. What is the historical likelihood of a snowless winter in Bowling Green?

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Cold weekend ahead

I have no major changes to the long-range forecast since my last post on Friday. After a light rain/snow event Wednesday night into Thursday, an arctic blast will commence late Friday and last through the beginning of the workweek with … Continue reading

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