Great weather for the week!

Hi everyone! Sorry I've been gone for a while. It was spring break last week, so you know what that means...midterms the week before then time to let loose and recuperate from the crazy semester. I did check in on the weather periodically last week. I don't have any images to show you from then, but I can tell you that we did get precipitation in the form of snow last Monday. I checked the surface map and we had a low pressure system over us bringing with it winds from the east. As we already have talked about winds coming from the east are being fed with moisture from the ocean. Once the warm, moist air rises high enough it cools  and eventually cools to it's dew point where it condenses and forms precipitation. That was the only day we had precipiation. The rest of the week was chilly.  Morning temperatures ranged between -10 and 10, but warmed up around the 20's and 30's in the afternoon.

This week is forecasted to have clear skies, with temperatures warming up to the high 30's and into the 40's. This will cause a lot of the snow we have to melt!! YAYAYAY!!! Hopefully the ground warms up enough so a lot of the water asborbs into the ground for a good crop growing season.

Today is forecasted to have a high around 36F. The current temperature is at 21F and feels like 21F. Humidity is at 74%, with a dew point of 14F. Skies are clear with winds are coming from the NW around 10-15 mph. Again, we know that winds coming from the NW won't produce any precipitation because they are being fed by cold, dry polar and artic air masses.

Weather conditions to the southeast of us aren't quite as good as they are here. We can see a low pressure cell located over Ohio. Again, winds circulate counterclockwise around low pressure systems. This is bring cold, dry air down from the polar/arctic regions and going underneath the warm, moist air coming in from the Atlantic. We know this will raise the warm, moist and cause precipitation. The surface map shows a lot of precipitation in the form of rain in this region. The low pressure cell located in the Atlantic is also contributing the a lot of the moisture in the atmosphere at this time.