{"id":568,"date":"2016-04-08T16:51:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/?p=568"},"modified":"2016-04-08T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T20:51:12","slug":"april-snow-showers-bring-may-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/08\/april-snow-showers-bring-may-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"April (Snow?!) Showers Bring May Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marylanders are familiar with wacky, indecisive weather, especially in the spring. This week will be no different.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, there will be a return back to winter temperatures and\u00a0<em>snow<\/em> in the forecast. But let&#8217;s tone the word &#8220;snow&#8221; down\u00a0a bit. Yes, Maryland is going to be above the &#8220;540 line&#8221;. The figure below depicts the forecasted thickness for\u00a0mid-Saturday morning. The 540 line (meaning 5400 meters) is the general rule-of-thumb when deciding if precipitation in a certain area is going to be rain (below 540) or snow (above 540). \u00a0The lower atmosphere will be very cold and cold air is more dense than warm air, hence why the atmosphere is thin.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_572\" style=\"width: 483px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-572\" class=\"wp-image-572 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/540-1.jpg\" alt=\"06Z GFS MSLP, Precip, and 1000-500 MB Thickness at hour 30 (540 MB line circled in gray)\" width=\"473\" height=\"479\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">06Z GFS MSLP, Precip, and 1000-500 MB Thickness at hour 30 (5400-m line circled in gray)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>However, the temperatures at the surface will most likely be above freezing, so don&#8217;t expect much snow to stick to the ground. At most we will get trace snow accumulation in the morning and precipitation will turn back to rain by afternoon. The figure below shows the National Weather Service snow accumulation potential\u00a0forecast.\u00a0In addition to the frozen mix, expect blustery conditions. There will be sustained winds around 20 mph, and 40+ mph gusts! High gets up to 46 degrees, low 28.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_571\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-571\" class=\"wp-image-571 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/StormTotalSnowWeb1-800x713.jpg\" alt=\"Snow Accumulation Potential up until Apr 9 at 8am\" width=\"800\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/StormTotalSnowWeb1-800x713.jpg 800w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/StormTotalSnowWeb1-500x446.jpg 500w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/StormTotalSnowWeb1.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow Accumulation Potential up until Apr 9 at 8am<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sunday looks much better. There will be plenty of sun and calm winds. There will be a chill in the air with a high around 50 degrees, low 39.<\/p>\n<p>April showers come back for the beginning of our week. Monday&#8217;s\u00a0weather will be partly cloudy, but there is a chance of rain. High in the upper 60s. Rain is likely on Tuesday for most of the day, with highs in the lower 60s.\u00a0Wednesday and the end of the week\u00a0will be drier and more pleasant. It will be mostly sunny with highs in the upper 50s.<\/p>\n<p>Cross your fingers that\u00a0the trends for next weekend\u00a0show\u00a0some springlike warmth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marylanders are familiar with wacky, indecisive weather, especially in the spring. This week will be no different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,12,17,6,15],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-discussion","tag-april-snow","tag-rain","tag-severe-weather","tag-snow","tag-spring"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cherryblossomsnow.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}