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Welcome to my weather blog. Throughout the semester, I will be making daily updates (including corresponding photos and/or videos) about the weather occurring in the Eau Claire area. In addition, many photos and videos illustrating weather from other parts of the world that I find interesting will be included.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Snow?

So my prediction from yesterday was far from accurate.  The only accurate part was the SE wind, which was prevalent throughout the day.  This helped moderate the temperature like I thought it would.  However, we did see some precipitation.  As I arrived at the school around 9:30 this morning, it was beginning to snow.  The intensity of this snowfall gradually increased, and it was coming down fairly good for a while.  However, it didn't amount to much (only 0.3 inches according to The Weather Channel).  The snow eventually stopped in the early afternoon, and a layer of stratus clouds remained for the rest of the day mostly.

As seen in Figure 1, there is still a few low-pressure systems in the area.  The counter-clockwise rotation of the winds in Figure 2 corresponds nicely with these low-pressure systems.  Based on this low pressure, there should be a high amount of cloud cover again tomorrow.  A little precipitation is possible. Temperature will remain mild due to a continuation of wind from the S/SE.

Figure 1.  Current surface map from The Weather Channel.  Low-
pressure system to our SSE.

Figure 2.  Map of current surface winds from Intellicast.
Counter-clockwise rotation prevalent in southern Wisconsin.

1 comment:

  1. Hey freak, I was off as well. Keep watching this upcoming storm for Tuesday/Wednesday. The scenario looks good. Now its just a matter of where the storm track is heading.

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