Weekly Wrap Up: April 15, 2018 #ARWX

Hi everyone! I apologize for posting my Weekly Wrap Up a day late this weekend, but I’ve been doing some preparation work for my PhD program that has kept me swamped over the weekend. This Weekly Wrap Up will be a little briefer than usual, but I still wanted to get one in this weekend! I’ll be dispensing with the seven-day extended forecast, as well as due to my weather station still being offline, I cannot post any graphics of my weather station’s conditions. Earth Networks is working on likely getting me a replacement weather station coming up I’ll be able to get online and use again.

We received 2.59 inches of rainfall on my CoCoRaHS gauge out of the rain event from April 13-14. We also received .09″ of rain this week on April 7 (I’ll dispense with a formal graphic due to time constraints this weekend). While it was warm this past week, this weekend has naw near freezing temperatures over the weekend with a Freeze Warning in effect for much of the state. Here’s a look at the Freeze Warning map, as well as temperatures across the state (both NWS and Earth Networks weather stations, maps courtesy of Baron Threat Net and Earth Networks Sferic Maps).

Here’s a look at some interesting weather news over the past week:

• Tornado Detection by Radar Occurred 65 Years Ago (CoCoRaHS)
• Don’t Be Scared, Be Prepared (Todd Yakoubian)
• Karnataka Chooses Earth Networks
• Teaching Weather Science to Students (Earth Networks)
• The Importance of Weather Data (WeatherNation)
• Landslides and Mines (Earth Networks)

Finally, here are some featured reports from our team of contributors this week:

• Why You Should Be a Storm Spotter (Mark Ingalls)
• Winter! Won’t It Ever End? (Cathie Ursu)
• Wind, Sun, Clouds, Overnight Rain (Patricia Murphy)
• Partly Sunny, Milder (Kevin Shaw)
• Wednesy Night System Brings Record Rain, Strong Winds to Mid-Colombia (Mark Ingalls)
• Historical Climate Summary (William Brantley)

That wraps it up here! Nathan Parker signing off!