Remember all the snow we woke up to Friday morning? Well here we are Sunday evening and it has been nuked. Goodbye snow. Goodbye anything resembling winter. It's all going to melt away as we give way to rain and and warm temperatures.
Friday's overachieving storm dropped a solid 5-6" across much of Central Ohio, with some 4" totals in southern Pickaway and Fairfield Counties. That left us with our highest snow depth of the season after our biggest snow of the season. This is right after many hours of below zero temps. A normal clipper would have dropped 2-3", but snow ratios jumped to 20:1 and dumped on our area.
Now we only have a slight chance of getting below freezing at all this week; Tuesday night on the backside of a weak cold front. We're looking at multiple rounds of rain over the next 5 days, leading to a mud pit for the Ohio Valley.
The WPC is forecasting a swath of 4-5" of rain for the next 5 days:
We could have a pattern switch back for a brief time next weekend, but for now prepare for an early monsoon. This winter has been bipolar.
So... my unofficial and probably a bit inaccurate barometer this morning (2-9-2019) was reading approximately 30.90". That's the highest I've ever seen, and after some research, quite close to the record high pressure in Ohio.
ReplyDeleteAnyone else notice this?
--TheHermit43130
Wow, I didn't even notice until you brought it up! It's not quite off the charts but it's definitely up there.
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