Weekly Weather Watch: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Weather making headlines this week starts off with severe weather approaching the Ohio Valley today; we have much to get to, so I will save you time. Here are the highlights:
Increased risk of damaging thunderstorms today for parts of the Ohio Valley.
Heavy snow will fall in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes today and tomorrow, shifting toward New England from Wednesday through the end of the week.
Widespread moisture will spread across the farther western states along with cooler temperatures through this week, shifting toward the Central U.S. this weekend and early next week.
For Alaska, a system by the weekend will spread wind and precipitation.
For Hawaii, the current storm system will weaken after delivering some moisture as it meanders nearby.
Across Canada, a colder system will deliver snow by mid-week to the weekend across Alberta. 10-30cm is possibly by Friday for the higher elevations. Meanwhile, 5-10cm for those east of Highway 2. Farther east from Eastern Ontario to Quebec to the Maritimes, the winter storm will spread strong wind, rain, and and snow through Thursday into Friday.
Let’s watch the storm motion for the next seven days in this animation:
A severe weather outbreak is possible through this evening over the Ohio Valley with the broader severe weather risk including parts of the Southeast. Strong and potentially long-track tornadoes are possible from Indiana and Ohio southward into the Mid South. A threat for strong tornadoes may focus this evening into tonight across parts of Alabama and Georgia. -SPC
Turning to total precipitation, we see some impressive totals. In the near term, precipitation from the Mid-Atlantic to New England may accumulate to more than two to three inches. In the longer term, heavy rain will shift focus to the Southern Mississippi where rainfall of more than four inches will be possible. Here are those images.
That’s a lot of water. Some of us will be getting lots of snow, too. Some pockets of more than two feet exist for the East. Here are those images.
Next week comes the potential for some colder temperatures, areas of heavy snow, and severe weather on the Southern Plains. Week-by-Week conditions were discussed in the Monthly Outlook released to Members yesterday (click here for more). That’s your weather briefing for this week. -Matt.
Pacific tropical moisture will drive one of the bigger weather stories this week as it gets pulled north into a slow-moving storm over the Southwest. New Mexico and western Texas face the greatest flash-flood threat early in the week, before heavy rain expands across the Southern Plains, Central Plains and Midwest. Some areas could pick up 3 to 6 inches of rain, with locally higher totals. The wet pattern won’t end quickly either, with the threat gradually shifting east toward the Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys later this week and into the weekend. Meanwhile, the Nor’easter affecting New England is winding down, while late-season heat hangs on across southern Texas and eventually builds across parts of the West.