Snowing in Kansas City

[sertorius]

In between classes and have a minuete before teaching the next one-looked outside-we had sleet now we have snow!!! Big heavey wet snow flakes-the temp. is above freezing, but this is a pretty strong low!!! Haven't seen snow in 4 weeks, but now, on the second day of Spring-vola-love the central plains!!!!

[CaptinCrunch]

Take a picture because I don't think you will see it again this season.

[CaptinCrunch]

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
120 PM CST TUE MAR 22 2005

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-231200-

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

RAIN...MIXING WITH OR CHANGING TO SLEET AND SNOW AT TIMES...WILL
OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM KANSAS CITY TO
RICHMOND TO MACON. ANY ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED TO BE LESS THAN ONE
INCH...MAINLY ON GRASSY SURFACES.

THE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRECIPITATION WILL
MOVE INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI TONIGHT. AS COOLER AIR FILTERS SOUTH THIS
EVENING...PERIODS OF SNOW...MIXED WITH RAIN AT TIMES ARE
POSSIBLE...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. AN INCH OR TWO
OF SNOW MAY OCCUR ON GRASSY AREAS IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...MAINLY
NORTH OF A LINE FROM BETHANY TO MILAN TO KIRKSVILLE. ELSEWHERE...DUE
TO TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TO BE ABOVE FREEZING...ACCUMULATIONS ARE
EXPECTED TO BE LESS THAN ONE INCH ELSEWHERE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

[donsutherland1]

Enjoy the snow, Sertorius. I hope you're students enjoy it, too.

[sertorius]

Thanks everybody!!! It was a typical Mid March snow-wet and melted on everything accept the cars-it was nice to see some flakes one more time before Spring and then the dreaded heat of summer hits!!! We also got some much needed rain!! Interesting to note that the 18Z GFS and 12Z EURO paint a very similar picture for this Saturday and Sunday-def. looks like we could see another soaker Saturday. GFS of course is much stronger than other models, but must admit the old GFS did pretty darn well with this storm-could it hit 2 in a row??? Oh-my students all freaked-most had just returned from the Carr. on Spring Break so they had gotten used to temps. in the 80's!!!

One more point: Lawrence (Again, Lawrence is 20 miles west of KC) didn't get hardly any snow at all. As I was driving home this afternoon, once you got about 10 miles west of KC Metro, the snow had changed back to rain. Really interesting to watch the dynamics here-there was just a small pool of cold air that moved overhead as the low scooted just south of KC-once you got west, the temps. began to rise. In fact, my temp. here has risen almost 2 degrees in the past hour. I just thought it was interesting!!