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AFOS product AFDICT
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Product Timestamp: 2013-01-04 19:58 UTC
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963 FXUS63 KICT 041959 AFDICT AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 158 PM CST FRI JAN 4 2013 .DISCUSSION... FORECAST CHALLENGES...LIGHT SNOW CHANCES EARLY SATURDAY MORNING AND THEN PRECIP CHANCES AGAIN NEXT WEEK. TONIGHT-MONDAY UPPER LOW OVER NEW MEXICO WILL LIFT NORTHEAST ACROSS THE TEXAS PANHANDLE EARLY TONIGHT AND ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS SATURDAY MORNING. CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS REASONABLE WITH MODEST CHANCE FOR LIGHT QPF/SNOWS ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS. SOME FLURRIES OR EVEN A DUSTING OF LIGHT SNOW IS POSSIBLE A BIT FURTHER WEST TO I-135 CORRIDOR...THOUGH BETTER LIFT COINCIDENT WITH RELATIVELY DEEPER TROPOSPHERIC MOISTENING SHOULD FAVOR SOMEWHAT BETTER CHANCES FOR LIGHT SNOW ACCUMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS. A NORTHERN STREAM UPPER TROF WILL DIVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE MIDWEST SATURDAY NIGHT...WITH DRY AND SEASONABLY MILD WEATHER EXPECTED FOR THE LATTER PORTION OF THE WEEKEND. THE EXCEPTIONS BEING OVER THE RESIDUAL SNOW COVER WHICH WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES A BIT COOLER MAINLY ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS. TUESDAY-FRIDAY THE MAIN CHALLENGE IN THE OUTER PERIODS CONTINUES TO REVOLVE AROUND THE HANDLING OF THE SOUTHERN STREAM UPPER TROF MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS NEXT WEEK. THE GFS REMAINS SOMEWHAT MORE PROGRESSIVE WITH A BIT MORE PHASING OF ENERGY WITHIN THE NORTHERN STREAM...WHILE THE ECMWF IS MUCH SLOWER. THIS LEADS TO SOMEWHAT LOWER CONFIDENCE IN THE TRACK AND TIMING OF THE ASSOCIATED SYNOPTIC FEATURES...SO WILL MAKE LITTLE CHANGE TO THE GOING FORECAST FOR NOW. THERE DOES SEEM TO BE BETTER CONTINUITY AND CONFIDENCE IN DEVELOPING A MEAN LONGWAVE UPPER TROF ACROSS THE WEST BY THE END OF THE WEEK...ALLOWING MUCH COLDER AIR TO BE POISED AND READY TO DROP SOUTH INTO KANSAS. DARMOFAL && .AVIATION...18Z TAFS KRSL/KSLN/KHUT/KICT/KCNU THE AVIATION CONCERN IS THE LOW MVFR/IFR CEILINGS AND SNOW CHANCES FOR KCNU. AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MID LEVEL CLOUDS WILL STREAM IN FROM THE SOUTH. AFTER SUNSET LOWER MVFR CLOUDS WILL MOVE IN IMPACTING PRIMARILY KICT AND KCNU. SNOW SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED AT KCNU TOWARDS THE MORNING HOURS...AND HAVE REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND CEILINGS TO IFR RANGE. VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY OVERNIGHT HOURS AT ALL TERMINALS UNTIL THOSE LOWER MVFR CEILINGS MOVE IN. WINDS WILL STAY RELATIVELY LIGHT AND OUT OF THE SOUTH/SOUTHWEST. TOWARD THE END OF THIS 24 HOUR VALID PERIOD...A FRONT WILL BEGIN TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA...CHANGING THE WINDS AROUND TO THE NORTHWEST...THIS SHOULD IMPACT KRSL BY 15-16Z TOMORROW AND BEGIN TO IMPACT KSLN BY 18Z. BILLINGS && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WICHITA-KICT 26 43 20 44 / 20 10 0 0 HUTCHINSON 24 41 17 42 / 10 10 0 0 NEWTON 25 40 18 40 / 20 10 0 0 ELDORADO 26 41 21 42 / 20 20 0 0 WINFIELD-KWLD 28 45 21 45 / 30 20 0 0 RUSSELL 16 35 13 38 / 10 0 0 0 GREAT BEND 19 36 13 38 / 10 0 0 0 SALINA 21 38 15 39 / 10 10 0 0 MCPHERSON 23 39 16 40 / 10 10 0 0 COFFEYVILLE 29 46 22 40 / 50 30 0 0 CHANUTE 27 44 20 39 / 50 40 0 0 IOLA 27 43 20 39 / 50 40 0 0 PARSONS-KPPF 28 45 21 40 / 50 40 0 0 && .ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && $$