As usual Wichita is getting screwed on this monster of a winter storm. There is a warm layer in the 850mb layer that lays over Wichita. West of this line everybody is getting snow. Along and east of this line everybody is getting sleet. Sleet is the most worthless waste of precipitation known to man. I hate that stuff. I should have spent some time doing my own forecasting for this because the forecast soundings from 00Z last night clearly show a sleet sounding and not a snow sounding for Wichita. I don’t know why nobody was saying anything about this at the weather service or on TV. It’s pretty important. West of here about 25 miles they’ll get over a foot of snow and we’ll probably be lucky to get four inches now. Well that just ruined my weekend. Wichita is cursed when it comes to storms. We never get snow and we never get good severe storms (which is probably a good thing).
I’ll try to post a long range forecast tonight or tomorrow.