Winter's Last Stand

Come on, this is getting to be excessive. Here we are on the last day of March, just looking for a little Spring weather. Instead I have to talk about the potential for a Monday morning rush hour storm that could hit Central Ohio. Then how about a couple more chances of snow during the week? Winter won't end quietly.

Tonight a weak front will sweep across the area, bringing showers and nothing more. Ahead of the front today we'll actually have some pretty gusty winds. Usually when we have a setup like this, there's a big storm coming. Well, it won't be coming tonight, but what we have to worry about is back in the Rockies:

By Sunday Night in to Monday morning, that Rockies disturbance will flourish as it races across the country and will hit the cold air left behind from this evening's cold front. Snow is likely, but again we're talking about an April snow here so accumulation will be minimal and more than likely won't cause huge issues:

This will be a light to moderate snow, but we could see 2"+ on grassy surfaces where ever this ends up dropping the heaviest.

We'll see a pretty quick warmup Monday afternoon and Tuesday, with more Spring-like temps and rain, before the chance at some backside flurries after a front Wednesday morning.

And then...

Yeah, we have the chance at one more accumulating snow next Saturday:

I'm paying a little closer attention to this one than I am Monday's storm, simply because of the setup for heavy precip. Notice in the image above that we have a pretty tight pressure gradient? That's because this storm is threading the needle between two high pressure systems (northwest and southeast in the Atlantic). That should squeeze the storm and bring a stronger system than we even see here. This is a week out, so all I'm showing this image for is to show there's potential there.

I'll keep an eye on all of these systems in the days to come and post again if either of them look to have a chance to be more than a minor inconvenience.