IEM Daily Feature
Friday, 26 December 2008

How warm can it get today?

Posted: 26 Dec 2008 09:36 AM

The featured image is a scatter plot of next day high temperatures versus snow depth. The plot tries to answer the question how warm can it get the next day after having snow on the ground today. An old forecasting tip is that high temperatures rarely exceed 43 degrees with 4+ inches of snow on the ground. The 4 inch snow depth reference line on the chart indeed shows very few 43+ degree temperatures. With high temperatures forecasted in the 50s today, this will be exceptionally warm given our current snow pack!

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Tags:   highs   snowcover