FRIDAY'S FOLLY

For about the past two days a few of the long range forecasting models have been hinting at a cool down for the end of next week. This much is plausible. So far, this months average high temps have been warm, with Fort Smith averaging 72.2º and Fayetteville averaging 68.9º. These figures are both 8.2º and 9.9º degrees above monthly averages, respectively.

The above map, which is a model forecast for late Easter night shows not only cold air being in place but, low and behold, there’s a storm too! A few snow flakes could be flying if (and that is a huge “if”) things panned out as the map is showing. *It should be stated that 9-10 days out is what we like to call "fantasy land" with computer model data, though any type of snow in April, whether cloud or computer generated, is amusing enough and certainly worthy to be this week’s FRIDAY’S FOLLY blog entry.

FYI: Could we actually see some winter precipitation in April? Climatologically the latest measurable snow event happened on April 15th where just under an inch fell.

Posted by Ted Zarras at 5:01 PM