A weather map of the United States and parts of Canada as of around 10am, Saturday, March 15. A massive storm system arcing from Canada down to the southern United States is currently over Ontario, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia.. and is heading toward Alabama and Arkansas from Texas. The frontal boundaries look like a giant, skeletal Nosforatu hand sweeping down from the vortex point of the storm system - currently around Minnesota. Four successive cold fronts - one arcing from Minnesota, through Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi and Texas. The next starts a little south of the first one, sweeping through Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The third is less of an arc and more of a large J, stretching from Minnesota, through Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and then swooping northward again through Colorado, Wyoming, where it turns into a stationary front stretching from Wyoming, through Montana, and northwest. On its starting edge, it meets up with another stationary front going from Minnesota, arcing OVER the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and southeast through western New York state and Pennsylvania. The fourth cold front starts near the US/Canada border and stretches southwest through North Dakota, where it meets up with a trough of low pressure along the North- and South- Dakota borders. There are red boxes with white capital Ls, indicating low pressure spots, mostly converging in Minnesota. There are a couple on that stationary front in Wyoming and Montana. There is another trough of low pressure from Idaho, through Utah and Arizona, one going NW to SE through Colorado, one going from west to NE through Texas, and huge trough running south and SW from Michigan, straight down through Indiana to Kentucky, where it starts to curve toward the southwest. The wind patterns are showing them all swirling toward that vortex of low pressure in Minnesota.
Lulz. (Not really.) 😭
Last night was pretty rough, but, to quote Princess Leia, "It's not over, yet." Indiana has a respite from storms, but is stuck under a massive trough of low pressure.
Be safe out there, peeps (and my fellow Human Barometers)!
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