Friday's Weather Thoughts

Being a meteorologist can be a very humbling experience at times.

Well it's obvious that the snow I had predicted over most of Greater Nebraska never materialized, though the cold and wind certainly did as advertized. What happened?
I expected a band of snow to begin developing over the northern parts of our viewing area, i.e., Nebraska/South Dakota border around midnight last night. I then expected this band to grow and intensify as it slowly moved southeastward across Greater Nebraska during the overnight through the day today. This would have put much of the viewing area under moderate to heavy snow for several hours, and the accumulations would have ranged from 1 inch up north to maybe 6 inches in the Southwest.

However, the band did not begin to develop until much later by about four to six hours. In addition, it developed over our central zones and by the time the band intensified, it was too far to the south of most of our viewing area to provide significant accumulations. However, the extreme southwestern counties did see some heavier snow bands in places like Imperial, as did parts of Custer County. Some lightning was even detected further southeast around extreme southcentral Nebraska.
For tonight, expect nothing more than some passing flurries especially over southern areas. It will be cold and windy with lows falling into the teens. Saturday (Spring begins at 11:32AM CT) will be mainly sunny but chilly with highs in the 30's. Sunday will be a nice day with sunshine and highs in the low 50's.

Mike