Day 118: Southeast Heavy Rain Event
For the past few weeks I’ve alluded to the fact I will have an extremely active spring. I’m involved in both VORTEX II (although my role has continued to evolve over the last few days) and the Experimental Forecast Program (a joint experiment hosted by the National Severe Storms Laboratory [NSSL] and the Storm Prediction Center [SPC] and held in the Hazardous Weather Testbed [HWT; I’m the one in the blue shirt in the image on the upper right!) This year’s experiment will have collaborators from the Aviation Weather Center (AWC) in Kansas City, MO and the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC) in the Washington D.C. / Silver Springs, MD area.
In preparation of this year’s experiment I was on a teleconference this morning with HPC and SPC so tonight I thought it appropriate to display a graphic produced by HPC. Above is the forecast precipitation totals over the next 5 days. As you can see, heavy rain is forecast for places that were hit hard by last weekend’s tornado outbreak. This does not bode well for cleanup efforts. This heavy precipitation is the result of another slow moving trough (#4 in last night’s post) that will move through the southeast late in the week into the weekend.
