Superbowl Weather

Superbowl home Dallas/Fort Worth this moring.

The frigid cold and endless snow of winter 2010/2011 continues this morning across the southern Plains including North Texas and Dallas. The Superbowl is scheduled for Sunday afternoon between the Packers and Steelers and well getting there may be difficult today, the weather looks good for Sunday. This morning Dallas is only 20F with 6 inches of snow on the ground, a new record for the city. They join a long list of North American cities with lots of snow cover stretching from Canada all the way south to the Gulf of Mexico. Houston is only 28F and Lake Charles 32F both with freezing rain. The freezing rain stretches across Louisiana where it is accompanied by thunder into Mississippi and Arkansas. Low pressure in the Gulf and plenty of cold air to the north is creating this situation. The storm is forecast to move to near Delaware overnight and off the New England coast on Saturday night. The forecast for Dallas for the Superbowl is clear skies and cool at 45F (7C). Go Packers.

With this track Montreal and most of northern New England will see just a light dusting of snow late Saturday. This morning weak low pressure is traveling to our north and producing a gusty southwest wind here in the St. Lawrence Valley. The temperature is relatively mild at -6C but the wind is making it feel colder. That breeze will also make travel interesting off island in open space with plenty of drifting snow across roadways. Saturday will be partly cloudy with perhaps a little light snow late in the day. Sunday will be sunny and seasonable. Next week looks very active with our next snow forecast for Monday and Tuesday. This system will produce a moderate snowfall of perhaps 10cm. Beyond that we may have a larger system later in the week but it is still early in the game, and forecast models have not been reliable at all the winter.

I have been using old skills to predict what comes our way, so far they are working much better than the modern technology. Speaking of which here is a wrap up of the most recent storm. Montreal had officially 19cm at the airport with 20-25cm across the south shore (I measured 22cm on L'Ile Perrot). Further southeast 25-30cm fell across the region from the Richelieu Valley south into the Townships and on into the US. State side 14" fell at Burlington with 13" at Plattsburgh and the winner locally goes to Peru, New York in the Adirondacks with 20".