80-90F On East & West Coast While Rockies Get Slammed By 2ft Of Snow, 35 Below Norm!

Written by on May 12, 2014 in United States of America with 0 Comments

It’s been snowing heavy throughout Metro Denver this morning with accumulations believed to be in the 3-5 inch range while up in the High Country, as much as 2 feet has fallen. Check out this view from Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies, located in Downtown Denver earlier this morning..

Courtesy/Credit: Colorado Rockies

Courtesy/Credit: Colorado Rockies

Temperatures are hovering as expected in the low to mid-30s along the Urban Corridor while it’s only in the 20s up into the higher mountains, what a contrast to points east and west where it’s looking and feeling like summer. Here are the current temperatures as of mid afternoon ET.

Source: weather.com

Source: weather.com

[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Departures from normal today.

Source: weather.com

Source: weather.com

Current view overlooking a toasty Downtown Los Angeles where it’s currently 88 degrees.

Source/Credit: WeatherBug

Source/Credit: WeatherBug

At the same time, here’s Parker, CO (below). In Leadville, CO it’s currently 24 degrees with a RF of 11.

Source/Credit: WeatherBug

Source/Credit: WeatherBug

As the skies clear out along with the system this evening, the snow that’s left behind will help radiate the little warmth of today, quickly back into space tonight. It could be an historic night for cold along the Front Range with modelling taking Denver into the teens tomorrow morning. That would be a new May record low. Here’s the ECMWF 2 metre temps tomorrow AM.

Courtesy/Owned by AccuWeather Pro

Courtesy/Owned by AccuWeather Pro

Note the single digits to near zero in the High Country where upwards of 3 feet of snow may have fallen. While there’s a distinct cold side to this latest powerful storm system, there is a very distinct severe side also. We indeed had some nasty tornadoes yesterday and here are the SPC storm reports. 35 tornado reports! BnbKF8OIQAAvmSC It was amazing to see yet another system, 2nd in less than a week bring the centre point of two very different extremes to Nebraska. Late last week we saw the hottest conditions so early in the east of the state (Lincoln hit 98F) with severe weather going off while the west of the state saw up to 8 inches of snow with highs stuck in the 30s. This occurred yet again yesterday with upper 80s along with damaging tornadoes in the east while snow covered the ground yet again in the west. Here’s a great photo captured by Cory Mottice of an angry supercell near Kinsley, KS last night.

Courtesy/Credit: Cory Mottice

Courtesy/Credit: Cory Mottice

Here’s today’s SPC severe risk. day1otlk_2000 While there’s a chance of severe weather again tomorrow, it appears the ingredients come together more again on Wednesday. day3otlk_0730 The cold knifing down the Rockies spreads east and so the 80s to perhaps low 90s impacting the East today will be a distant memory by the end of this week. There’s no real chance in the medium to longer range outlook, continued west-east progression of the ridges and troughs. wk1_wk2_20140511_NAsfcT wk3_wk4_20140511_NAsfcT Despite the surge of summer and the fact we’re nearly into mid-May, there’s still 21.5% ice cover on Lake Superior, astonishing! sicecon-00 Will try to get a video up later. [/s2If][s2If current_user_cannot(access_s2member_level1)][magicactionbox id=”18716″][/s2If]

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