In a medium range of all the weather models continue to show the next big impulse coming in on the Pacific jet stream to develop over northern New Mexico or the northern Texas Panhandle while fairly cold High pressure builds into MT and WY. The combination of these two features produces a significant spring snowstorm across much of Colorado   western and  central  OK   northern TX and western  & central Kansas     from Thursday night into Friday evening  . The   heavy snow and high winds  willl continue over northwest  MO  and  southeast  IA  during the   Frioday night  &  Saturday. To the east of the big Low it looks like a significant rain event for much of the Deep South and the Midwest East of Interstate 35  in the   amouts of 0.50 to 2.00" .    Western  IA   Northern ILL MN and WI   will miss  out on THIS  event.



                   

This Low   moves into New England by Sunday but then the NEXT system is already diving out of out of the Pacific Northwest into the central Rockies by Sunday.  None of the weather models are showing any sort of break in the extremely stormy pattern.   The  central Rockies   Low comes howling out of the central Rockies Sunday night with another significant snowstorm possible for eastern COL... and moves into western KS and NEB  on Monday and Monday night.   This Low will   track a bit further to the north  whichis why we could see Heavy   snow over eastern NEB  IA and MN    (Significant being 6 inches or more ).   This event also promises to bring a significant soaking rain to much of the ECB as well.



         



There is still ANOTHER  major Low    coming   in   for  early  April   as  a   major system coming into the Pacific Northwest and entire West Coast April 2... that drives rapidly into the Great Basin and the Rockies bringing another major snowstorm for the higher elevations in that region.     The 0z Thursday European model develops the system into a yet another massive Low ... that reaches maximum intensity over western NEB  and central SD April 3- 4. Assuming that solution is correct this would bring a significant springtime blizzard to much of the Upper Plains and more significant rain to the WCB and ECB regions. 



                          

 

There is still considerable uncertainty as to what  is going to happen in a pattern in the 11-15 day. The 0z GFS insists that after this last system moves through into New England on April 5... a major trough is going to become established from the eastern plains or Mississippi River to the East Coast bringing large areas of below normal temperatures for several days.

There is some support for this solution from the GFS ensembles as a do develop a pretty strong Ridge over the Rockies which allows for a moderate sized trough over the eastern third of the CONUS. Such a development would shut off the parade of major storms coming in from the Pacific into the central portion of the nation but in doing so it also sets up a much colder pattern as well.