The war that I am referring to is the war between winter and summer. The war has another name and that is called spring. Often people come to me an state that they can't wait until spring but what they envision as spring and what is truly there are two different things. Spring doesn't really have it's own characteristics but rather is a transition between winter and summer. At first winterlike weather wins out with short bursts of warmth and then slowly summer wins out. We know who wins the war but how it the battles are fought are the day to day patterns of spring. Since the lower levels often start warming faster than the atmosphere above, it is a very cloudy and unsettled time of the year and we are going to see a lot of this over the next couple of weeks.
In fact, we really have started the war and we are going to be right over the major battle zone over the next couple of weeks. In fact, given the La Nina and the cold currently across Canada, I believe the usual spring storms are going to be extra fierce. Will some bring wintry weather. Yes. They usually do. But I also see us sneaking toward 50 with some of these storms cutting to our west. Right now I am seeing the stage set for the potential of heavier rain events that combined with snowmelt may bring a flood potential at one point next week.
--Chief Meteorologist Joe Murgo
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