Good morning,
How much snow have you had this season? I have a list, below, that we will add your totals to, if you have been keeping track.
It is lightly snowing as a weak upper level disturbance moves by and we still have some lingering low level moisture. There has been a dusting and it is blowing around on the roads. This disturbance will move by around 10 AM, and once it does the air will start sinking which will lead to, hopefully, the breakup of the clouds.
Look at the two maps below:
A storm is being forecast, by all of the computer models, to come into the west coast and then for it to dive south southeast. It is then supposed to close off into an upper low and track well south of Kansas City. That energy coming across the west coast tonight is what ends up diving south southeast. Exactly what will happen with this storm? The energy that is being used to create this storm doesn't come into the west coast until tonight. There is still a chance that we will get a significantly different solution, even though there hasn't been one computer model that has shown this upper low to get close enough to bring us a winter storm.
Let's see what happens and trends on the models today and we will update the blog later this afternoon.
Seasonal snowfall totals as of February 12th:
- St. Joseph, MO: 40.8"
- Fort Leavenworth, KS: 33.3"
- Topeka, MO: 29.3"
- Platte City: 28.0"
- Cameron, MO: 26.9"
- Parkville, MO (west of I-435): 26.0"
- NBC Action News (east side of The Plaza): 19.3"
- KCI airport: 18.7"
- Olathe, KS (Near Olathe North High School): 17.0"
- Overland Park, KS: 16.4"
- Merriam, KS: 14.9"
- Grandview, MO: 13.6"
- Blue Springs, MO: 13.1"
- Pleasant Hill, MO (NWS): 12.2"
- Kansas City, MO (Near Bannister Mall): 10.3"
- Harrisonville, MO: 9.1"
Have a great day! I have a big chest workout this morning with my trainer so I will be sore later today. I must get motivated.
Gary