Temperatures will be generally mild in March but by April, we’ll see some pretty warm spells, with temps nudging into the 70s more frequently. We’ll still have a handful of cold snaps in April too though, so that will keep us from being far above average. May and June will be warmer still.

As for precip, I’m thinking that the bulk of our rain will come from a few pretty heavy convective events, with at least a couple significant severe weather outbreaks in May and at least one in the first half of June or so. Those thunderstorm events will constitute the majority of the recorded precipitation for the period. By the end of June, we’ll be starting to dry out with less severe weather likely.

the second prediction is a big hokes so don’t pay any attention to that

first off i would really love to have a foot of snow for the lawrence area, i know we haven’t had much snow this year since our last one that actually ended the snowflake contest and it really has been a mild warm winter. so we will see if the models continue to show the trend of the snow chance to increase for a week from tuesday right now i am a bit optomistic about it.

here is my 2012 spring forecast.

-temperatures i think will be a little above average say like 2-3 degrees above average for the start of the season but by the end of spring i say about 1-2 degrees below average.

-i do think we will see some outbreaks of severe weather this year and i think it will be sort of like last year but a little different changes to it.

-rainfall on agerage for kansas city between march through june is 15.62 inches, i think we will see a little more then that this year but a little bit below average rainfall for the seccond half of spring. but we will see.

-temperatures on average i think will range from 3-4 degrees above normal so my guess for temperature contrast would be between 72-75 or 76 degrees. i might be off a little bit on my predictions but just deal with it if i am in the future.

gary, hows this look to you is it ok or do you think i need to change a few things to it. what do you think.

have a great day
brad b

I’m really ok with either. It would be cool to break the record for least snowy winter. On the other hand, it would be cool to have this non-snowy winter end with a real bang. Ground’s so warm that we don’t have to worry about snow sticking around for long.