No Joke

It seems like Mother Nature may have indeed pulled a fast one.  Almost exactly 12 hours after my morning post and the storm seems to be falling apart.  I will give myself a pat on the back for never getting excited about this one and even stating that in my original post.  Even with advisories in place for a few inches, I think most places in the Valley will struggle to even coat the ground.  Still impressive for the 1st of April.

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Approaching 6:30 Thursday morning.  Not as much changed from last night as I thought.  Many watches have turned to warnings but southern sections are still without anything.  Here is the latest from NOAA.

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Mother Nature might be the cruelest jokester this year as the region prepares for another winter storm on of all dates, April 1st.  Areas from the Lehigh Valley north are already under a Winter Storm Watch from Thursday night into Friday for the potential for heavy snow.

Like all winter storms coming up the coast, this storm will be tough to predict.  I've virtually seen anywhere from 10 inches in the northern sections of the area to basically nothing for southern sections.  Once again, I'm not too sold on anything major.  A week or so back when advisories went up, there was not nearly the totals as originally predicted.  Here is a snow map total off the NOAA site as of 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night.

This is one of those systems, that even though it is 24 hours away, things seem to constantly change.  I expect the watches, warnings and advisories to start popping up tomorrow morning.  As of right now there are watches from Allentown to Maine.  No warnings.  No advisories.  Just one solid stretch of watches.  Even that is unusually.  It's like saying, something is coming, but we aren't exactly sure who gets what so everybody watch.  I would have put the HRRR model run for accumulating snowfall up but it has changed so often with so much variation it isn't even worth it.

Regardless of the situation, the weather for the rest of the work week will not be pleasant.  It's going to rain.  It's going to snow.  And it's not going to be warm.  As ready as everybody has been for Spring, I think a lot of people are ready to forget March.

If I get any extra time tomorrow morning, I will make a very brief post within this same article at the top.  Any additional posts before the storm arrives will also be chronologically placed from top to bottom from newest to oldest.  I will call it the time-line of the last snowstorm for the 2010-11 winter.