{"id":921,"date":"2013-03-14T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2013-03-14T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:41:00","slug":"long-range-models-suggest-cold-wins-out-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"Long Range Models Suggest Cold Wins Out For A While"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New long range data has come into the weather center over the last week, and it looks like any warm-ups for the rest of March will be short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>This morning&#8217;s GFS model is very similar to the last several runs before it, keeping colder than average temperatures around through the weekend, next week, and the week after next. While there will be some warmth into the start of this weekend, this morning&#8217;s GFS model has colder than average air (purple and blue colors) over much of the Midwest and Ohio Valley by next Tuesday:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/mar13-gfstue.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-922\" alt=\"mar13-gfstue\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/mar13-gfstue.gif\" width=\"507\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GFS model also suggests that cold air sticks around into late March, including for Monday, March 25th:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/mar13-gfsmon.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-923\" alt=\"mar13-gfsmon\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/mar13-gfsmon.gif\" width=\"506\" height=\"407\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Northwest flow and a persistent snowpack in southern Canada means reenforcing shots of cold air will keep coming for the second half of March.<\/p>\n<p>A new ECMWF Weekly model run came in this afternoon. Like the GFS, it suggests below average temperatures will dominate for late March and early April. This afternoon&#8217;s ECMWF Weekly model says temperatures will be below average (blue colors) from this past Tuesday through next Monday:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/mar14-ec1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-924\" alt=\"mar14-ec1\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/mar14-ec1.png\" width=\"595\" height=\"421\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The model also says temperatures will be below average in the Ohio Valley from next Monday through March 25th:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/mar14-ec2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-925\" alt=\"mar14-ec2\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/mar14-ec2.png\" width=\"590\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and from March 26th from April 1st:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/mar14-ec3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-926\" alt=\"mar14-ec3\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/mar14-ec3.png\" width=\"589\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and from April 2nd to April 8th (although not as cold as previous weeks):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/mar14-ec4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-927\" alt=\"mar14-ec4\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/mar14-ec4.png\" width=\"587\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The theme is clear: cold air will be a clear winner over warmth for the next few months. It is still too soon to make an outlook on the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New long range data has come into the weather center over the last week, and it looks like any warm-ups for the rest of March will be short-lived. This morning&#8217;s GFS model is very similar to the last several runs before it, keeping colder than average temperatures around through the weekend, next week, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}