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Never in my life did i think i would see "lake effect" snow in land locked Kansas.  This season has truly proven that once we think we have a handle on what is going to happen we get a curveball thrown to us.

i had a light flurry on my way home at about 1330 here...

Jeff,

Good to hear from you! You should chime in more often! INTERESTING blog indeed ! (is Gary sick?) if so, Gary, hope you feel better soon! You did sound pretty hoarse on the 10PM last night.

My last post made it in on the end of the last blog, so I hope it's ok to post it again:
barb15718 ,
You brought up March '90...which led me to my "collection"of calendars that I have kept for the last (umpteen) years. You are right about the snow on the 23rd.  Here's what I had logged in for the week of  March19-23, 1990 .
Mon. 19th-54degrees, 20th- 60*, 21st- 72*, 22nd- 64*,and Fri. 23rd-26 degrees with 4" of snow for Olathe, and 9" of snow for KC north !

Here's some weather trivia from my 1993 calendar:
March 13---"Worst snow storm of Century"- East coast-- Syracuse,NY-4ft !, Pittsburg 20", W.Va. 24", Kentucky 24", Tennessee 21", N.C. 2-3ft., Alabama 15"

And other events from 1993,  here in K.C.:
MARCH
18th- 1 inch of snow
31st- 47degrees
APRIL
1st- 37degrees with snow(less than an inch)
11th- 67
12th- 47 with heavy rain/hail
15th- 43 with rain/snow
18th- 74 degrees
20th- 44 with rain/snow

So, we can have a mixture of rain/snow as late as the end of April...I had totally forgotten, what with the mild winters we've had the last several years!
Whew...we certainly are the "land of extremes" here in the Plains !

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Ethalo,

Thanks.  Gary is at work today, I just did a guest blog.  Those are some interesting stats, 1993 was quite a season.

Jeff

That is just amazing!!!..The cumulus clouds have been rolling in here with the wind...No snow though.

Bring on the storms...I hope the low does close off further west and the storm becomes very wet...I want more snow.

Stormdog and his wife and sister in have "endured" various degrees of the Type A flue, which our shots were suppose to prevent - Jo Anne had to be taken to emergcy room as St Marys with hi fever etc - both Melva, my sister in low and myself were on the cusp of something, tho my wife doubts I had the flu.  However, days later, aching mussings, tho no fever like my wife endured, the aches, the lassitude, the  unwell felling in my gut, heavy cough, sweats without  feaver, lead me to believe (after 6 days) that perhaps my reaction to flue was minor compared to hers, thos not a lot pleasant.   How did the CFC get this so wrong (1st time in 25  years)  Makes one wonder whether the Administrations incompetence ( "Good Job Brownie - New Orleans - and the incompetent response to that ) - the world wonders...  This whole Bush administration  has been a disaster, from Irag, Abu Grahab to New Orleans - how bad can this get ?  A plague disaster?  God forbid.

And the weather, horrendous, cold, depressing in the extreme, ain't been much of a help.

Bet you all will never post this, but typing this makes the Dog get it off his chest.

Dog

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Dog,

We hope you feel better soon.

Gary

Probably hit the 90's starting early May at the rate this seasons been behaving.

Has there ever been so much snow effect snow that it made several inches anywhere? What will the LRC forecast for March 14th, I hope it is sunny and warm, like on of the 3 times you said would get into the 70's. When will you make your next 45 day forecast? I am anxious to know these thing, hopefuly you can respond (or anybody else) to this. Thanks, Byan.

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Byan,

We are still only 10 days into our current 45 day forecast.

Gary

Incredibly interesting for this to happen here--

Thats actaully really kool.... ya when i was coming home from school, thought i saw some flurries coming down.... AWESOME!

Driving home from class today I was definitely wondering why there were cumulus clouds, moving at a good pace, and so low.  Well now I know.  Thanks for the quick education.  I really didn't think I had any brain space left at this point to learn even a tid bit of any kind of something resembling anything at all.  Make sense?  No, probably not b/c I now officially have no more room inside my cranium.  It's is official.  Must take nap.  Sleep is good.  

I wish those 50's would dissapear off the 7 day....

That is some crazy stuff. In my 43 yrs I thought I had seen it all. Mothernature likes to reel you in and when you think you have her figured out she throws you something you have never seen before. Just like a woman I mean thats why it is called mothernature. Ladies you know we love ya and we couldn't make it without you as easy as we do...LOL..........

Hope all of you have a good week will be in St. Louis till next Monday so everyone behave and don't give Gary and the team to much trouble ( Scott and Notes ......LOL.......)

when are our active weather dates for march thanks

Thanks for the info Jeff, that is really amazing!  

Pretty cool image.  Will have to add that to the archieves.

Whew...what a week.  I am looking forward to the National Severe Storm Workshop coming up.  That will be fun!

I will be troublefree for awhile.  Have stuff to work on.  LOL

      Good Evening Weather Team,  with the snow shower tonight do you expect something like last night (a dusting). does the next storm early next week look like a biggie? Thanks for the time

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No, tonight is just a snow shower.

Gary

I saw some snow-spitting on 435/87th Street in Lenexa around 3:30.  I thought it was really odd.

Dog, I hope you feel better soon, but come on...do you really think Bush is responsible for what viruses the CDC picks out for the vaccine?  I'm quite sure they have panels of scientists and other medical proffesionals who work on formulating the vaccine...not Bush.  It's a bit of a stretch to blame him.

Its more than flurrying here in Marceline, MO...It is snowing and we have a light dusting on the ground...It is pretty cool with the lake effect clouds and all...I took a picture because it sounds pretty rare.

The 50's on the seven day look incredible, when can we expect some 60's? Man I just love it when the days get longer! Oh, forgot to mention I think I saw a miniscule flurry about the size of a grain of sand today in Olathe, I was wondering if anyone else saw this?...

my girlfriend and i have a question, how can you tell the difference between lake effect snow and just regular snow?

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Snow is snow. Lake effect can be quite heavy, but a snowflake is a snowflake.

Gary

Thanks for your explaination on the clouds today.   They were quite interesting looking up from here in Sedalia.   Sedalia too saw snow flurry activity today.  I am glad it didn't amount to anything.

Wow! I saw a few snow flurries this afternoon.

Dog hope you get better but Bush did not make this a snowy winter for me . . . this snowfield clouds/snow is neat and defines the winter for the area SO FAR. . . just plain, difficult to predict; unusual once in a 30 year for snow and we are not done yet. . .

Well I still have snow around up here the warm air has not busted up past highway 36, I  live a half block north of 36 hwy!   I still have twigs in my yard that I have not been able to rake up yet due to all the ice then snow cover and darkness.  No signs of spring in the trees or shrubbs --  OK I thought I would never say it but I have had my over 3.75 months of winter bring on spring^^^^^^^^

NO more snow 46 inches, at my house, 30.5 at the airport is enough its time for baseball and my second favorite thing KITE FLYING. . . love it as a kid once I had one up on 1000 feet of string for five days [left the end of the string a tree and checked it on my way to school, at lunch, after school, at 10:00 ands 2:45am when I got up to throw papers] ********

I am betting on the mean we are 10 degrees below the average for Feb.  THE AVERAGE HIGH NOW IS 48 LOW 26      

I knew we'd start winning them over...

<<<<<OK OK I CHANGE MY MIND BACK MORE WINTER>>>>>>

Im sick with the flu. Im getting tired of this cold weather. Cant wait for 70's and 80's. I love snow but the cold weather is making me and other people around me sick. Warmer weather please.

gary, i understand what your trying to say but the blog says that you've never seen this before. we were just wondering how you knew it was what you said it was, "snow effect snow"?

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I meant to say "snow effect clouds".  But, there were a few snow showers too.

Gary

the OZARKS would enhance any snow just like mountains. . . would it not?

As a kid and later as a young man in southeast Missouri roughly from 1973 through about 1985 we had a period of years where this type of winter was the norm.  My daughter who will be 23 tomorrow and my son who is 17 have never really seen a winter like this one.  Not so much down here on the southside with the snow but with the repeated blast of cold air.  Its nice to be able to draw comparisons for your kids to finally get it when it comes to a winter like the "good ole days".  Our biggest snows in those days were always in late February and into March.  Gary might we be moving into one of those cycles like we had 30 some years ago?  I am more convinced that we are at the end of a global warming period and headed for a cooling period over the next 25-50 years than I am continued warming.  Oh, district basketball tournament at our school this week thanks for the calm weather this week.

just a note here on the graphics... for the last several days, the graphics and photos aren't loading here on my computer at work. not been a problem before. i've refreshed, dumped cache... not sure what else to do or if it's a possible glitch on that side. no one else has mentioned it so assume it's our problem.... h

ave a great WARMER day everyone! i finally got the car washed and think it might actually stay clean for a few days!!!

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It must be a setting on your computer.  We are loading some of the graphics with various uploading sites. How many more of you can't see the graphics?

Gary