Depressing news to speak of weather-wise for Denver... snow... yes, freakin' snow! Forecasts are hinting at the chance for snow on May 1 here in Denver. If that manages to come true, it'll be the latest season snow I've seen outside of a brief bout of fast flurries after a FROPA in June back a few years ago. This storm has the potential to bring heavy snow down here. Not the news I want to hear as I am so over winter. And I'm over it because winter sucked for us in terms of snow. It had its chance, now's not the time to repent!
However, chances are good that I'll be on the warm side of this storm chasing severe weather as I am doing a road trip to Minnesota this weekend with Tim Samaras, Verne Carlson, and Carl Young to fit the vehicles with the mesonets to be used in this year's go-around. Fortunately the chase will saw off a bit of drive time as we'll end up working our way there Thursday.
Thursday is the bigger of the two days at present, but I am looking at Wednesday for local possibilities up in northeast Colorado and the Nebraska panhandle. Ed Grubb may accompany me on these chases, and if so, will probably need to work out a plan to meet with Samaras and company. With that said, things are still up in the air.
Regardless, I have no desire to stick around here and depress myself with cold and snow. May 1 is way too late for me to think about snow. But alas, here it comes! I have questions as to whether anything will accumulate even as snow could be heavy. If it does accumulate, it won't be to the extent that it could if it were March.
Stay tuned for the news on both ends... final projects have kept me busy most of the weekend and thus my web updates have taken a backseat. I'll get to those at some point here soon as I am hopeful to wrap up projects within the next week or so.
