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Kent Ehrhardt: January 2007 ArchivesHere's a summary of our weekend storm from the national Weather Service office in Weldon Spring. ...The Sunday storm has pretty much come and gone. Up to 6 inches on the ground in parts of the viewing area so I feel pretty good about the forecast. This one was much easier than most. Of course my eyes are on the next potential snowmaker on Wednesday but on a personal note I'm more concerned about next Saturday and Sunday. I mean, can I get at least one weekend off this month!!! ...Good morning all. The Weather Service dropped the Winter Storm Watch in favor of a Snow Advisory. An indication of their confidence that we will be seeing significant snow totals. Rain snow line still sets ups precariously close to St. Louis. I'll call that the wild card for now. Initiation looks to be around 10 pm to midnight in metro, earlier to the west. 5 inches +/- in my forecast. Freezing rain and sleet still in the mix south of St. Loui...
Still on track for what should be a pretty decent snowmaker this weekend. Moisture certainly in place to our south courtesy a very impressive low lattitude jet. Rain from Mexico through Texas into western Tennessee. Some freezing rain and sleet in colder temperatures at night. Although the main upper level energy tracks a little farther north in recent model runs, latest ensemble run produces 3 to 6 inches of snow in heaviest bands (not necess... As many of you know I spent last week in Steamboat Springs, Colorado at the annual Steamboat Weather Summit. CBS News was there and did a nice report. You can see the entire piece by clicking on the red button on our home page. The Steamboat trip is a real highlight for me and I look forward to going every year. I think I've been to 16 of the conferences having only missed one when I broke my leg racing motocross back in '99. I've had... I'll take rain over ice any day. We've still got a chance for some ice overnight, maybe even some snow, but it looks like temperatures in the metro area will remain above freezing until later tonight and then the precipitation should end. Western portions of the viewing area are still seeing temperatures at or below freezing though. Of course I'll update the 5 day forecast tonight at 10:00. But I will tell you that I expect some very winter-l... As of 3:00 Saturday afternoon (1/13/07) we await the onslaught of yet another wave of freezing rain and sleet. It seems, sometimes, as if St. Louis is right on the rain snow line in these events and this one is certainly no exception. A drive down highways 40 and 70 from west to east reveals quite a different scene. In St. Charles and western St. Louis County trees are laden with a thick, heavy coating of ice. Closer to the city and into the m... |
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