April 16, 2018

Temperature: 28°F
Dew Point: 17°F
Wind: NW 7 mph
Clouds: Stratus
Precipitation: 10%

For certain area, this weekends snow storm was declared historic, breaking records across the Midwest. Specifically, for Wisconsin areas like Green Bay saw two-feet of snow! I only had to shovel about 10" of it. 

Figure 1. Historic Winter Snowstorm Totals (National Weather Service - Green Bay).

 And it you consider that snow fun, just wait, there's more. Another low pressure system is developing to the west and bringing in another wave of snow before it's time to call it spring. By about Wednesday, we should see another series of precipitation sweeping through Wisconsin.

Figure 2. Current surface (intellicast.com).

The rest of this horrible snow storm is stuck in Michigan and headed towards the NE where it is appearing to carry more rain. It even can be seen in the jet stream where the polar vortex is trapping the snow storm as well. 

Figure 3. Jet stream at 250 hPa (earth.nullschool.net).

But after taking one last took, you can see that the atmosphere does not hold the quanity of moisture in the air as it did this past weekend. The areas of precipitation over the Rockies and the NW is what we could be seeing as snow this coming Wednesday. 

Figure 4. United States Colored Water Vapor Satellite (accuweather.com).