Thursday, April 11, 2013

STORMY EVENING/NIGHT AHEAD

~640am Thursday  4-11-13   (click to enlarge)
"Red sky in morning, sailors take warning..."

By supper time tonight our skies should be rockin' and rollin' with raucous thunderstorms.  It's been quite a system with significant snows on the north/northwest side and plenty of severe storms and tornadoes on the southeast side of the system...and that's the part that approaches later today.

Always hard to pop a tornado in the mountains given the geography, but very gusty winds are expected, as well as periods of hail and good ol' lightning.  Power outages seem very likely, but I will not be on the mountain when this all hits.  The favored ETA is around 6pm, increasing in likelihood after dark.  Chances should be tailing off before sunrise as the system moves east.

The other component is too much rain for our own good. 1.5" to over 2" will be a common tally, with isolated areas getting 3"+.

Bob

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