Weather and Market Commentary: December 24, 2009
December 24, 2009 by sabrina829
Thursday, December 24, 2009:
Winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings covered most of the Plains and western Midwest early on this Thursday (blizzard warnings for western North Dakota), with flood/flash flood watches and warnings to the east in the warm sector of the storm. We also had tornado watches posted early today for much of Louisiana and parts of nearby states. Snowfall amounts in the Plains through midnight were not especially heavy, at least at the major reporting stations in the region as I could not find much more than two to four inch amounts through midnight for Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and northwestern Iowa. The storm has been a huge rain-maker for Arkansas, with radar suggesting that there has been more than five inches in a southwest-northeast strip across the state (and it is still raining heavily in that area as of this writing). There have been seven reports of tornados from the storm so far, all of them over extreme eastern Texas. All of the real heavy precipitation was outside of the Midwest early today, but residents there should not get a false sense that this storm is not going to be a big one.
Precipitation will be on the increase today in the Midwest as the main storm system now over northeastern Texas intensifies and lifts northward. The heaviest snow accumulations from the storm will be coming over the next 24 hours for the eastern Dakotas, Minnesota, western Wisconsin, Iowa, western Missouri, eastern Kansas, northwestern Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma, and northern Texas. All of that area is expected to see at least four inches of snow, but western Iowa northward through much of Minnesota likely will see upwards of a foot. Once the storm centers itself over Iowa tomorrow, it is not going to move a lot so additional significant snow accumulations are likely for Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas. Snow will be tapering off in those areas on Saturday, though even then some light additional accumulations will be seen. Winds from the storm will be strongest tomorrow morning and will easily be enough to create considerable blowing and drifting. In the warm sector of the storm, very big additional rains are likely with additional one to three inch totals expected over the next 24 hours in the Delta region (with severe weather a possibility with that activity).
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Weather and Market Commentary: December 24, 2009
December 24, 2009 by sabrina829
Thursday, December 24, 2009:
Winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings covered most of the Plains and western Midwest early on this Thursday (blizzard warnings for western North Dakota), with flood/flash flood watches and warnings to the east in the warm sector of the storm. We also had tornado watches posted early today for much of Louisiana and parts of nearby states. Snowfall amounts in the Plains through midnight were not especially heavy, at least at the major reporting stations in the region as I could not find much more than two to four inch amounts through midnight for Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and northwestern Iowa. The storm has been a huge rain-maker for Arkansas, with radar suggesting that there has been more than five inches in a southwest-northeast strip across the state (and it is still raining heavily in that area as of this writing). There have been seven reports of tornados from the storm so far, all of them over extreme eastern Texas. All of the real heavy precipitation was outside of the Midwest early today, but residents there should not get a false sense that this storm is not going to be a big one.
Precipitation will be on the increase today in the Midwest as the main storm system now over northeastern Texas intensifies and lifts northward. The heaviest snow accumulations from the storm will be coming over the next 24 hours for the eastern Dakotas, Minnesota, western Wisconsin, Iowa, western Missouri, eastern Kansas, northwestern Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma, and northern Texas. All of that area is expected to see at least four inches of snow, but western Iowa northward through much of Minnesota likely will see upwards of a foot. Once the storm centers itself over Iowa tomorrow, it is not going to move a lot so additional significant snow accumulations are likely for Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas. Snow will be tapering off in those areas on Saturday, though even then some light additional accumulations will be seen. Winds from the storm will be strongest tomorrow morning and will easily be enough to create considerable blowing and drifting. In the warm sector of the storm, very big additional rains are likely with additional one to three inch totals expected over the next 24 hours in the Delta region (with severe weather a possibility with that activity).
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