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• Quick thought

  Created: 2009-04-30 18:23:52 Author: Scott Metsker

  Greetings everyone!  As you have noticed, we have been a bit delayed on some blogs lately.  We are focusing right now intensely on some research and business clients.  We will continue the blogs, but may be only a few a week for a little while.

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• Revisiting a January blog by Ed

  Created: 2009-04-28 13:42:24 Author: Gary Lezak

  Good morning LRC Weather Bloggers,

  As these temperature swings continue to occur through the plains even as we are about to move into May I decided to look back at past entries and I found this one that Ed posted in January: 

  January e...

• Moisture profiles in KC's upcoming rain event

  Created: 2009-04-25 03:11:09 Author: Ed Roberts

  Happy Saturday!

  We've finally seen a long-awaited strech of beautiful weather in Kansas City. Outside of allergies kicking into full gear, no one is complaining. Unfortunately, this comes to an end as a quasi-stationary front settles across the...

• Slow Corn Planting...An Update

  Created: 2009-04-24 06:15:03 Author: Jeff Penner

  The weekend is near!

  Time is moving right along and corn planting season is well underway.  Based on the latest, weekly government crop report issued on Monday, April 20, 5% of the crop had been planted.  This is compared to the 5 year averag...

• LRC or GFS - Which is better? #2

  Created: 2009-04-23 10:38:11 Author: Scott Metsker

  Good Thursday everyone!

  I had started a week or so ago about comparing the GFS to the LRC trends for forecasting.  You can find the details of the experiment

  Adding to Ed's blog yesterday

  Created: 2009-04-21 12:22:09 Author: Gary Lezak

  Yesterday Ed Roberts showed the precipitation graphs from various cities and talked about utilizing what we know about the LRC in helping make an accurate forecast and what can be expcected just based on the precipitation trends.  I have always strong...

• Precipitation trends in graphical glory

  Created: 2009-04-20 03:31:26 Author: Ed Roberts

  Happy Monday!

  I've been facinitated with utilizing graphical comparisons to evaluate different meteorological factors of the LRC. We've spent most of our time at 500mb. We've also looked at thicknesses and surface temperatures. They've all poin...

• Its no surprise

  Created: 2009-04-19 03:38:50 Author: Scott Metsker

  Good Sunday.  I am going to do little narrating, instead letting past blog entry discussions lead this entry.

  The Great Lakes trough (Feat...

• Top 5 Reasons to Pay Attention to the LRC Theory

  Created: 2009-04-18 13:20:58 Author: Ed Roberts

  Happy Saturday everyo...

• USA Crops & The LRC

  Created: 2009-04-17 01:07:15 Author: Jeff Penner

  Well, hard to believe, but it is yet another Friday.  These weeks sure go quickly.

  As I am writing this, the 3rd major precipitation event since March 28th is occurring in the western Plains.  This has been a great 3 weeks for the winter whea...

• Quick Followup

  Created: 2009-04-16 03:19:41 Author: Scott Metsker

  Good Thursday everyone!

  This blog is just a quick followup to the prior

  The April version of this years LRC

  Created: 2009-04-15 12:25:13 Author: Gary Lezak

  I am in a High Wind Warning on this early Wednesday morning.  Where am I? In Palm Desert, CA as my father is having major surgery today.  It will certainly be a dramatic day for me and my family and I am positive that everything will turn out well fo...

• Show me

  Created: 2009-04-14 15:59:06 Author: Scott Metsker

  Good Monday everyone!

  Sorry I am a bit late with the post, but none the less, here it is!  As technology continues to advance, so does the availablity of media and data.  We see its effects everyday in "now" coverage of events around the worl...

• YOU make the forecast. Upcoming cut off low

  Created: 2009-04-13 02:39:00 Author: Ed Roberts

  I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend no matter the weather in your area. In Kansas City, we saw yet another wet closed-off upper-level low move into the central part of the country. Quite the change from the moisture-starved version of the LRC b...

• The LRC-Surface Trends and how to make a forecast

  Created: 2009-04-11 04:58:10 Author: Scott Metsker

  Good Saturday everyone! I hope everyone has a time to enjoy the weekend and share Easter with family and loved ones! Today's blog is a quick retreat from the blog series I am doing and thought I would bring a new perspective into...

• Many Crop Issues...Blame the LRC

  Created: 2009-04-10 05:55:25 Author: Jeff Penner

  Good Friday, literally and figuratively.

  There are many weather issues facing crops in the United States, you can blame the LRC.  What do we know about LRC 2008-09?  Well, we know there is a long term long wave trough in the Great Lakes and a...

• LRC or GFS - Which is better?

  Created: 2009-04-09 05:16:11 Author: Scott Metsker

  Good Thursday everyone!

  As my research has expanded, I have found sources of data that allow me to explore different means of analysis with the LRC as well as further angles of evaluation of its forecast usability. This blog will b...

• The LRC & Using It...Can it Help?

  Created: 2009-04-08 13:27:12 Author: Gary Lezak

  More storm systems are forecast to drop down the west coast and eject out into the plains as upper level lows.  One is forecast to move across the central and southern plains states into the Missouri River valley by Friday.  A second storm is likely ...

• Comparing the last two cycles

  Created: 2009-04-07 12:26:33 Author: Gary Lezak

  As we are having a hard April freeze in the Kansas City metro area this morning I have been doing some extensive research on the LRC.  I have plotted out the graphs of this years weather pattern at Topeka, Denver, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, and ...

• Damaging hard freeze in the KC area

  Created: 2009-04-06 01:48:19 Author: Ed Roberts

  Here in Kansas City, we have once again seen the rapid temperature swing, indicitive of this year's version of the LRC here, rear it's head again this last weekend. Temperatures went from the 70s to the 30s in about 15 hours from Saturday into Sunday. ...