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Good Friday bloggers! A lot of you are wondering about the forecast for the rest of this weekend. We'll discuss that later in this blog, but I want to first update everyone on the radar trends for this evening if you have plans.
Overall, much of today in the metro has been dry, but there have been a few pockets of rain, sleet, and snow. None of this has amounted to much, and most of the precipitation has been near or west of the state line. This evening as the atmosphere saturates a bit more some of this could begin to push farther east. Let's look at the radar from around 4 p.m. I labeled the 3 main areas of precipitation with what I think is occurring. The mixed area is likely rain, sleet, and snow. The area of rain/sleet may be a little more rain than sleet. If you have reports please post them to the blog this evening and all weekend long! They really help us out!
I'm not expecting anything more than trace amounts to a few one hundredths of an inch of precipitation overnight. Temperatures will remain above freezing so road surfaces would just be wet.
On Saturday a little dusturbance will move across the area producing light precipitation. I think this will be a true mixed bag of rain, sleet, and snow. During the morning I think it may be more sleet/snow before mixing with or possibly changing to rain by afternoon. This should be showery stuff and not come down continuously all day. With clouds around highs will be on either side of 40.
The ULL that is impacting us on Saturday is clearly shown on the GFS 500mb forecast map. I labeled the Saturday disturbance #1. And then upstream is the little wave(#2) that will bring us snow showers on Sunday.
In last nights blog I mentioned this may phase to produce a larger storm. Right now it looks like that probably will not be the case. Instead we get 2 little waves bringing us a chance of precipitation each day.
With colder air slowly dropping in the wave for Sunday should produce mainly snow. Right now a dusting of snow looks possible. Maybe a little more than a dusting in central Missouri. Any accumulation will greatly depend on how hard the snow comes down. As Jeff Penner likes to say it doesn't matter how warm the ground is, if it snows hard enough it will stick. That also applies for road surfaces. So while I am not expecting this to create major problems it may be a case where some of the heavier snow showers produce enough to stick on a sidewalk or road surface for a time. Highs should be in the mid 30s on Sunday, so wet roadways will likely be the rule. We'll keep everyone updated but right now I think enough snow to give some a dusting...not everyone...but some.
Temperatures-wise both Sunday and Monday look cold with highs in the 30s. We were the first station to discuss the big warm-up for Tuesday and it is still looking like at least 50s and maybe some 60s in the viewing area. This will be a one day deal as a strong cold front drops temperatures back into the 30s on Wednesday. The focus right now is on the rest of the weekend though.
Make sure to tune into NBC Action News HD at 5, 6, & 10 p.m. today and again from 8-9 a.m. Saturday morning for the latest on precipitation chances and Kansas City's most accurate forecast.
I also changed LIVE:ESP over to winter mode for our newscasts so you can get a little better idea of where the rain, sleet, or snow is located. Thanks for stopping by and make sure to tell your friends and relatives about us! Have a great weekend!
Jeremy