Saturday, May 4, 2013

So Much For Those May Flowers, Huh?

Yesterday's wintery mix of precipitation changed over to rain by the later part of the day. That rain is still falling this morning. The temperature range yesterday was miserably small, with the high being 36 degrees F (30 degrees below average) at 2:25 pm and the low being 30 degrees F (11 degrees below average) at 4:25 am.

From this regional temperature highs map, you can see that Eau Claire was fortunate enough to be stuck in the skinny band of never-ending winter. The coldest section is where the precipitation was happening yesterday.
These are the regional low temperatures from May 3rd. I like to call this image "Narnia: the place that's always winter and never Christmas."

Snowfall estimates for May 3rd were 1.2 inches, with another 0.45 inches of rain precipitation to add to it.

This was the regional radar over the last 24 hours. If you compare this image to the high temperatures image, you can see the correlation between precipitation and temperature, especially since much of this precipitation began as snow and sleet.

This means cold temperatures and more flooding. The winds yesterday were coming out of the NNE at 13 to 20 mph.

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