Friday, January 19, 2007

To the Wire...

Gee whiz, I nearly had a heart attack looking at all of the models today. At about 3pm this afternoon I thought our snowstorm was gone, all gone. Why? Well, we got some good old fashioned snowstorm-busting warm air in the forecast and I saw that we would get the snow (1-3" still) but by late morning it was going to turn to ALL rain after a brief bout of sleet. Of course, rain melts all snow.

After a few hours of depression and homework, I am starting to turn a corner now...

The models are slowly letting up on this warm air trend, and tomorrow it may be off the maps completely I heard! We have the potential for a ceiling of 5" of pure snow if it stays below the 32-33 degree range. If you do put the weather into your devotional dealings with higher existences, please ask for a high of 32.2 degrees (exact freezing point) and no more! Southern Indiana will get the blunt of the storm with a possible 3-6" area, but you know that's always what happens. If we can kindly usher (then kick with a steel toed boot) the warm air out the door on Sat-Sun., we are in good shape. Henry Margusity at Accuweather.com is still banking on 3-6" as of 12:00pm this afternoon (even after the warm models) for any point along the Ohio River, Including Evansville, Louisville, and Cincinnati. I wouldn't mind a 1 hour light sleet session either, which looks inevitable at this point. I'll tell you what, sleet is more of a school canceler than any type of precip around. A quarter inch of that, and you're done...

You'll be able to see my new forecast video tomorrow late morning to early afternoon.

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