Chris's Corner - Mid January Fresh Start

If it’s not sleet or snow( you know something to turn the ground white) then I’d be ok with the whole damn thing missing us.... the last thing we need is more rain

The radar is pretty stout from rolla and Jeff city all the way down into Oklahoma. Once that main shield of precipitation gets here , it should stay going all afternoon. Temps are still well below freezing and the dew points are still in the low 20’s. The steady north East wind is limiting the advance now, but should be an asset this afternoon and continue to feed cooler dry air in which will hold temps down. I always look at the temps down south from Springfield tor rolla they are still 29-32 . Not a massive push of warmth.

That clipper energy Monday has sneaky written all over it. The atmosphere is going to be very cold so it won't take much moisture to kick off some accumulating snow. Snow liquid ratios will be sky-high if anything falls

Still nothing in Cedar Hill.

Looks like the hole is starting to fill in on radar

Been out and about all morning. Luckily no road issues down this way. Just elevated areas iced over. I’m just west of Rolla.

Sounding 30min ago at Lambert still had pronounced dry layer at 925mb...37C dewpoint depression.

Where can you find recent and/or airplane soundings?

Enhanced snow accumulation along the nose of Minnesota due to a strong southeasterly fetch on the front side of the sfc low.

Now that's cool

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wxster.com/acars - This is probably the easiest to use

sharp.weather.ou.edu/soundings/acars/ - I load into SharpPy from here, but you can read the raw text too

www.weather.gov/grb/AMDAR_soundings - This site rarely works from what I can tell

Even if you don't have SharpPy the files at sharp.weather.ou.edu/soundings/acars/ are plain text and are easy to read and interpret without software.

No precip making it to the ground 

ON NWS Chat sounds like conditions deteriorating rapidly in central MO