Spring Delayed

We are not warming up with the spring season. While the surface can heat up during the daytime sun there remains a large pocket of cold air over much of region which is keeping us with below normal temperatures. The longer forecast products shows continued cold and while I don't see a significant snow for our area, the (snow) rich with keep getting (snow) richer. Place like Rockford, IL and Madison, WI and across souther MI will likely see a couple more good snows.

The early forecasts showed the week warming up to near 60 locally by Friday but now the forecasters have dropped things back down to low 40's for Friday. There does appear to be a tight temperature gradient acorss Indiana starting on Thursday into the weekend. While we could see 40's, south of I-70 will see 60's. This tight gradient has some limited potential to make a few isolated thunderstorms acorss the region Thursday evening into Friday.

In general I would say the weather pattern for the next week will be crummy. Rain, cooler temps, some possible thunderstorms and end of the week snow flurries. Nothing spring like about this weather pattern.

Tuesday looks like the only sunny day but it will be windy so even a seasonal temperature will seem cold. :(