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Just in time for Spring

Rockies will not be catching up. Very warm winter there.

04/19/2013 has been showing up high in the analogs on CIPS for a while now.

Was definitely surreal to have accumulating snow house after 70 degree weather. Truly a fun winter. But I'm ready for spring. just ordered some bareroot plants for my garden

2023 ruined a lot of apple crops here with a horrible May freeze. However, not sure if the issue was early season blooming vs a really anomalous cold snap. Maybe a little of both.

Hasn't that been a problem more frequently in this part of the country over the last 10 .. 15 years? The demon has been claiming early flowers. Dead flowers = no peaches. The balmy heat bursts we've lustfully, almost 'immorally' wallowed in some four or five February's just since 2010 ( some extraordinarily nearing 80!), ..to mention the ones in Marches... they seem to inexorably be followed by brick earth cold. It's an under-the-radar cost of CC ( that is doesn't exist, so thank god we're losing crops for no reason, huh - ) related whiplash extremes. You can't flip the seasonal switch that dramatically, intra-seasonally, without consequences to actual life. Risking a digression but I'll just say... humans really do have superior adaptability. But that in away makes them the best agency nature can create to destroy nature - because the shit they stank is tolerated by them, but starts slowly sterilizing all else. But, ...at some point when the seas no longer provide, and the soil loses too much arability to sustain ... it will be impossible to adapt to 0 food.

That's an almost comical cutout of Iowa

It sure is, I was just looking at stuff from the 80's and 90's, all very well done for my neck of the woods.

Sadly, you are probably right!

NAO going negative just in time for Spring

FYI, yesterday's DCA snow amount was upgraded from 0.1 to 0.2 inch. Also, yesterday's BWI snow amount is now listed as "missing" rather than a trace, which could mean that amount is being reevaluated. See revised table below:

Yes but if we go by @Eskimo Joe's superstition - these tend to fail. Our best days often are when SPC plays catch up - I think anecdotally this is sometimes true but it's more probably just mental in that when it's hyped up and it's only a middle of the road event, it sticks in our minds.

Can you share the 6z Euro?

DVN has issued a Watch for most, if not all, of its area it appears. Maybe not the very southern tier.

So long as the wind stays below skin tactility ... the sun will do a ton to offset the annoyance of cold air. It's not warm out? just to be clear. I realize there's some subjectivity to preference but 35 F will still cause hypothermia to anyone naked out there. That is my criteria - can a naked human being survive totally nude. If so, it's not cold. LOL. It probably still still pokes 43 or so. seriously tho, it's all about the sun and no wind at this time of year to reclaim some "nape value". If sitting on a park bench in that sun, and the wind is nary more than a zephyr's waft, creates this wonderful dichotomy to the senses. It's like you can tell it's cold, but at the same time, the protective invisible cocoon of warmth belies that reality - the sun is such liar, huh.

One man's classic is another man's diarrhea.

With such a large 30% area already highlighted 4 days out on a forecasted nagatively tilted system coming out of the Mississippi valley while we're already on a bit of a convective heater gets me all hot in the trousers. . That said, the severe outlooks being placed so far east and mediocre surface temps warrant some bust concerns. If this forecast were to verify the main thing I'll be watching on Monday is the proximity and time of convective initiation, low level lapse rates, and moisture return. If we can score some juicy overlapping, there and some of the other parameters hold true, it should be one hell of a day, not far from home.

I might have problem with the ground soil, not sure but I like the tote system, you seem to have it mastered. I already have the totes from my move last summer so may be the way to go.

This is the time of year when those places and the Rockies can play big time catchup

I don’t know what people’s expectations are but this weather is pleasant for the calendar. Full sun and light winds the real feel is fine for the long morning walk with the dog.

If i could, I would probably do the same as to what your considering, That area sits SW so it has sun on it all day, I have a lot of clay, And that area where i have the garden holds a lot of water so it would be impossible for ground plants, But i can control growth and pest much easier making soil amendments every year

Your wet season is coming up.

Not when a trace. Just snow in the air over here. 1.41" of rain for the event.

Yes it does.