7:59PM If you are in the La Crosse Wisconsin area, be sure to sign up for spotter training for next week. It’s severe weather season, and if it interests you, this is a great way to help out the community. Of course, every office has spotters, so look at your local office for details if La Crosse isn’t it.

8:48PM This is the kind of night one likes to see if you like tracking radar but don’t want destruction. Dry line thunderstorms are ongoing, severe at times from west Texas to western Kansas. Maybe some hail or gusty winds, but otherwise it’s Tuesday.

9:22PM While river flooding remains an issue along the Mississippi, it’s really gone down along the Ohio. Now, the cause is recent rains in Missouri, where some smaller creeks and tributaries are running high. With a few quiet days, the threat for any flooding should continue to wane.

953PM Another that is fairly summer like with the system sweeping the center of the country tonight: This is the last gasp. It won’t carry much energy tomorrow, because the parent system isn’t particularly well organized. This will leave plenty of atmospheric juice for things to percolate again later in the week in the southern Plains.

9:11AM – If anyone was curious, today is the type of day that southern California dreams are made of. It will be in the 70s throughout the LA Basin, and cooler down towards San Diego. It will warm slightly through the weekend, but for now, excessive heat is stayed.

11:01AM Looks like a pretty normal one from the SPC today, with a broad swath of slight risk yellow through the middle of the country. Some seriously summer vibes out of the outlook today.

But, um…. what’s the deal with all this pink in the Rockies, NWS?

8:15PM: The week ahead is going to provide more threats for severe weather, but not nearly as vivid as it was in the past few weeks. On the north end, there won’t be the snow inducing cold air. Instead, just enough to induce this cute graphics pack from NWS Aberdeen.

11:15AM: With spring running a bit cool right now, and so many stories about rain afflicting the mid-South and Appalachia, we would be forgiven to not realize how dry the northern High Plains have been. There are red flag warnings today from northeastern Colorado through the Dakotas. Compounding matters is the surface pattern, which is allowing for winds gusting 35-45 miles an hour. If fire does crop up, they will whip up and spread quickly across the prairies.

11:25PM Weatherbug had the best month forecasting last month, and while yes, the actual forecasting was good, I have to believe that a huge part of it is that they got rid of side scrolling for hourly forecasts.

9:32PM It’s a quiet night across the country. The bulk of he warnings on the national map are temperature related, which is not what one expects to see on April 8th.

11:20PM Another sign that the seasons are changing. A fairly organized complex of fronts is going to move out of the Plains and into the Great Lakes through the next 48 hours. Why is this unusual? Because it’s not really going to DO anything. How can we tell it will move through? It will be partly cloudy and 75 or so tomorrow in Omaha (after lower 60s today). On Wednesday and Thursday, it will be partly cloudy and 65.

1153PM Where did those thunderstorms end up bringing severe weather to? As you may recall, we were looking at an enormous area of severe weather risk leading into the day.

A little towards the northern end of the risk area. For fun, here is the map for today.

And today was more concentrated to the south.

1:23 AM: I don’t know about you, but I would say it looks like there might be some mountain snow on the way?

10:48PM: It’s going to snow in the Great Lakes in an otherwise tame system. Tame? Tell that to the UP