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03/17/2024, 10:03 am EDT

Daily AG Round-up: U.S. Sunday Report

Fig. 1: The latest NOAA/NWS weather watch, warning, and advisory areas.  Discussion: Snow lingers in the southern Rockies with a Freeze Watch tonight across the Interior Southeast (Fig. 1). Gusty wind and lake-effect snows begin the week Great Lakes to Northern Appalachians. Cooler weather surges southward to the Gulf States by tomorrow. A cold high-pressure system in Canada ridges into the North-central/East U.S. this week, a cooler change. By next weekend, a snowy pattern will develop across the Northern Plains. The forecast trend over the weekend for the remainder of March is wetter for next week as the influence of a transient Pacific Madden Julian oscillation (MJO) soaks the U.S. after a relatively storm-free week ahead (Fig. 2-3). The GFS+ECM temperature anomaly forecast for the U.S. trends cooler over the weekend (Fig. 4-5) also indicated by the gas population weight HDD forecast (Fig. 6). Fig. 2-3: GFS 1-7-day and 8-14-day percent of normal precipitation forecast across the U.S. Fig. 4-5: GFS+ECM U.S. medium-range temperature anomaly forecast. Fig. 6: The U.S. gas population weight HDD forecast using all models and their consensus and compared with 48 hours ago plus the 30-year/10-year normal.