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Written by Gary Lezak
Friday, 05 February 2010 07:01

LRC Weather Bloggers,

Thank you for checking in today.  This weather pattern is now incredible as back to back major winter storms are in the forecast during the next few days.  The first one will be tracking from Kansas City to Washington D.C.  And, then the second major winter storm will be developing on Monday, February 8th as Arctic air plunges south into the plains states.  This is all part of this years LRC (Lezak's Recurring Cycle) as they fall into the long term long-wave troughs. 

February is likely going to be one of the snowiest second months of the year for many cities.  Kansas City had its third coldest October, then its third snowiest December, and I said on the air the other night that maybe Kansas City is about to experience a combination of the snowiest and coldest February's on record.  I know it is only February 5th, but this is going to be a month to remember across this band from the middle part of the nation to the mid-Atlantic states.

I will add more thoughts later on today or tonight as we go into where we are within the roughly 60 day cycle this year.

Gary Lezak

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matthew.haden  - Math Teacher   |2010-02-05 15:12:05
Hi Gary, We recently moved to Lincoln, NE from Kansas City and we greatly miss
your forecasts. I still check your blog quite frequently as it seems like the
Nebraska stations haven't been "clued" in on the LRC yet.
I went back
sixty days and found this from the NWS OAX
website:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmss
tory.php?wfo=oax&storyid=44116&source=2

This December storm produced widespread
10" amounts across SE Nebraska and put the KC Metro area an the very
southern edge of the band of snow.

The models so far this weekend have the
storm accumulating along I-70 and our stations up here are saying 1 to 2
inches.

SO.... From what I've learned from the LRC, I'm guessing over the next
two days we will see the models moving the accumulating snow further and further
north??? Or will the influx of colder arctic air compared to December push the
storm across it's currently forecasted path?
jcleverboar   |2010-02-06 14:24:14
Gary,

Given what has happened so far in this year's LRC, do you hazard to guess
what the severe weather season (April/May/June) will be like? The
October/December/(and apparently) February series of storms lead me to believe
that April into May could have a number of especially robust severe
storms.

Over the last few years I've used the LRC to determine when I should
take vacation in the spring (to do a couple of major gardening projects). This
year's April looks like there could be some intense storms through most of the
month.
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