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April 10, 2008

Spring Snowstorm Chase: April 10, 2008 [post 5]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mike U @ 5:29 am

36 degrees in North Platte with "chunky" rain.  The radar loop out of Goodland, KS is very impressive with significant precipitation echoes across all of northwest Kansas.  The temperature continues to slowly drop here in North Platte.  It is snowing and 32F in Ogallala about 50 miles west of here.  I estimate the rain/snow line to be probably 20-30 miles west of North Platte as of 6am.  Below are a couple more model forecast snowfall amounts for this storm, the first is the "Dev" RUC20 model and the second is from the NAM.  Both are suggesting 10-12" here in North Platte.  The NAM shows a significant 20" bullseye across north-central Nebraska:

  

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