AccuWeather advises a wild week of weather is ahead for a massive portion of the country. Our April-like temperatures have been a spring tease but a reality check is bringing some weather risks to the central plains.
AccuWeather meteorologists are monitoring the potential for an even bigger and more potent storm that could take aim from the Rockies to the Plains by the weekend. Not only could the weekend storm drop heavy snowfall amounts, but it could also unleash the potential for severe weather and flooding rain.
The storm that has been on AccuWeather’s watchful eye since early last week is actually a large southward dip in the jet stream that is expected to become a closed low-pressure area, which is essentially a storm located high in the atmosphere.
The storm was forecasted to form over the Southwest states at midweek then spin eastward. Because storms of this nature are thoroughly involved at the jet stream level, they often bring extreme weather in the lower part of the atmosphere.
The developing and strengthening storm is forecast to unleash up to a couple of feet of snow on the Sierra Nevada and needed rainfall at lower elevations of California and Nevada into Thursday.
On the storm’s wintry side, a multiple-day snowfall is expected over some of the mountains over the interior West, including the Colorado Rockies and foothills as well as adjacent areas of the central High Plains beginning late this week.
Superior Temperature
High Temperature this week 73
Low Temperature this week 25
Precipitation
This week 0
Year to date 1.56
Average for March 1.47
Average to April 1 2.91
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