Category: cold front

Roller-coaster temps and the first rain chances of 2012

January 5, 2012

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Erik Proseus

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arctic cold, cold front, forecast discussion

With the first week of 2012 underway, a temperature roller coaster has been the highlight in Mid-South weather so far. An arctic front brought frigid temperatures to the area with readings dipping into the teens in suburbs and outlying areas on Tuesday morning, but the Mid-South has quickly settled back into a milder pattern as…
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Potential heavy rain, flooding event for the Mid-South Sunday-Monday

December 2, 2011

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Erik Proseus

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cold front, flash flood, flooding, forecast discussion

After our first snow of the season earlier this week, the weather over the Mid-South has rebounded nicely with temperatures back in the 60s this Friday and snow a rather distant memory. However, the nice weather won’t be sticking around much longer as yet another cold front will be on the approach this weekend. Unfortunately,…
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Anatomy of an Arctic cold front: a visual of several weather variables

February 2, 2011

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Erik Proseus

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cold front, graphs

Here’s an interesting look at how different weather variables respond to a strong Arctic cold frontal passage. These graphs are from WXLIVE! weather station at Cirrus Weather Solutions in Bartlett, TN (click image for larger version). The numbers along the bottom of each graph are time (in hours) starting about 8pm on January 31 and…
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Analysis of surface conditions during a frontal passage

October 30, 2009

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Erik Proseus

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cold front, wxlive

The cold frontal passage on October 30 brought more than just a torrent of rain to the Mid-South. While the flooding conditions and widespread 3-6″ rainfall totals over two days were certainly impressive, the cold front itself also was easily captured by watching weather parameters before and after the front crossed the region. Take the…
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Cold front has passed

January 10, 2009

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Erik Proseus

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cold front

Today’s cold front passed WXLIVE! in Bartlett at 9:00am with a wind shift and quick drop in temperatures and dewpoints. See the graphs below and notice the change at 9am. Temperatures have dropped from 62.5 at 9am to 45 at 11:30am. Expect a continued decline, though much slower, in temperatures the rest of the day.…
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Another cold spell coming

December 2, 2008

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Erik Proseus

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cold front, forecast

Abnormally cool weather will continue for some time, based on the latest information from the Climate Prediction Center, which shows us to remain well below normal temperature-wise for the next couple of weeks. See the map above for Dec. 10-16 temperature probabilities that gives us a 50-60% chance of below normal temps. The eastern 2/3…
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Cold snap coming

October 25, 2008

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Erik Proseus

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cold front, forecast

Though we’ve had some cool mornings so far this fall (today is no exception – low of 37 at the weather station in Bartlett this morning), the first real Canadian express cold front of the season is on track for an early evening arrival on Sunday. No precipitation (in fact no real cloud cover) will…
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