The lunar eclipse on Sunday April 7 begins at 1:27CDT in Texas and ends at 3:35EDT in Maine. The projected cloud cover for the event indicates most of the track has cloud obscuration according to GFS.

A soaking wet forecast for West/Southwest Europe trends wetter overnight. Excessive rains and flooding emerge. A persistent deep upper trough off Southwest Europe is the culprit. A transient Madden Julian oscillation across the tropical Atlantic enhances the rainfall.

A blizzard is forecast for the North-central U.S. early next week featuring 10-20 in. of snow, high wind, and frigid late season temperatures. The expansive snow cover helps to bias the West/North-central U.S. medium-range forecasts into early April cooler than normal.

During the past week, extreme heat has attacked Northern Argentina to Southwest Brazil where weekly temperature anomalies are in the +4C to +8C range. As a result, sudden drying of soils has developed and accelerated in Northern Argentina, Paraguay, and Southwest Brazil.