Snowing like hell all night with about 4-5" down already. It's supposed to snow until the afternoon. We are supposed to get into the mid-50s by next week so it looks like winter decided on one last kick in the nuts before it left. [Reply]
Heads up, Wichita and most of Kansas. The morning thunder is just the start of what will be an interesting 24 hours. A potentially historic (or unprecedented) low pressure area is expected to move out into the plains on Wed. As it moves into the plains it is expected to deepen rapidly. Something we in the weather field, called "bombo-genesis". Where the low "bombs out". This will lead to potentially damaging wind gusts of 50 to 65 mph across most of southern and eastern KS for Wed afternoon. Think low end hurricane strength winds. So please, prepare now, strap down things in the yard, or outside. Trampolines, trash cans, chairs. I would not be surprised to see power outages. Also abundant moisture will be pulled north, which may lead to heavy rainfall and possible flooding, due to lots of runoff because of partially frozen ground. Most areas may see over an inch of rain, with some areas across central KS, getting 1 to 2 inches of rain.
Front is moving through the southwest now. Rain all night and today here. [Reply]
Denver is crazy right now, snow has been dumping for hours with constant wind speeds like we never see here accompanied by snow. The national guard has been called in to rescue stranded motorists, basically all fire and police out rescuing and shutting down interstates, I-25 and I-70 are essentially closed for any meaningful travel in the state, somewhere around 250k+ w/o power due to heavy snow and wind taking down huge trees, trees smashing cars in the streets, it's snowmaggedon! Every screen in my house in every direction is caked with snow on the screens from the swirling snow, posting from an igloo. [Reply]
