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Re: Another Winter Storm???

Regarding our earlier message about a possible major winter storm which will develop and could affect our area, but could move to the east, it now appears the storm will move well to our east.

The only significant effect of this large east coast storm will be to draw down another surge of cold air after a weekend warm-up.  All is not lost,however.  It looks like a significant warm-up toward late week or next weekend.

The weather pattern is looking quite stormy as we head into February, but with warmer air over the next couple weeks.  Please remember that an active pattern, even a warm one, could still produce snow in winter.  Any heavy rain event could threaten flooding with nearly 2 inches of water in the snowpack currently.

There are no big storms currently indicated in the coming week with the exception of the early week storm.

Ron

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Another Winter Storm???

There are indications of another major winter storm early next week.  It could be as wild as this one.  There is still uncertainty and the storm could move to the east, but current thinking is we may be under the gun.  Stay tuned.

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Winter storm helped with soil moisture

Snow and ice in the recent storm added up to 11.7 inches at my location.  This melted down to 1.91 inches of liquid giving a total for liquid precipitation for the month to date of  3.27.

As of late December, Cincinnati had been taken out of the drought designation.  However, last week we were still listed by the drought monitor as abnormally dry and were lagging behind for the month.  There’s nothing like moisture laden snow to replenish soil moisture!

Needless to say, local landscapes have been through two years of drought, heat in 2007, Hurricane Ike, and now another damaging ice storm.  Plants need good soil moisture but some are very stressed right now.

Ron