It's Official

Kokomo, Indiana is Mother Nature's official screw zone for snow. It looks like we will be winding down winter with no big snow (or even minor snow) on any of the medium range forecast models. After this weekends cold shot, a warming trend with commence bring more seasonal temperatures in the 40's and then 50's be next weekend.

Our seasonal total seems to be around 12" or so if my memory serves correctly. That would be even less of the late January storm didn't over produce for Howard County dropping 6 to 7 inches of snow.

I declared Kokomo the official screw zone (and Lafayette the honorary screw screw zone) after watching storms go north and south of us. Indianapolis is either at or slightly above their seasonal average. I decided to make the announcement today when it looks like huge imapct snow will cover the south, middle Atlantic state and costal New England, all snow starved regions.

NYC to Beantown could see 10-12"+ from this beauty. We just get to enjoy (not!) the cold being dragged out of Canada by the deep trough.

At this point I am ready to toss in the towel and say bring on spring and warm weather. I wouldn't mind a few 70 degree days in our forecast.

One thing that bears watching right now is the early build up of heat in the Southwest. Arizona and Southern California has been rather warm this past week with 90's for some areas. At some point that energy will get ejected in the Plain States/Midwest/Ohio Valley and could make for some interesting weather.