QT Weather Meteorologist Allen Motew hopes that the words “blowing snow” won't be used again for the next 9 months, but today these words describe “winter’s last gasp” across Oklahoma and parts of W Kansas and Texas.

 

Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri will be in the path of some heavy snow this weekend.

 

The “culprit”-A cut-off low-pressure center over the Southern Plains

 

 

The potential path of heaviest snowfall for Saturday...

 

Stay tuned though as the heaviest snow totals will be “variable” and “confined” as the first storm of Spring takes a far southern track... The good news is that this southern track keeps the flooded Dakotas and extreme southern Iowa and Wisconsin out of the action.

The southern Plains will see an abnormally cold weekend

 

Monday quickly warms in the the Plains while the cold air moves into the SE.

 

The middle of next week sees additional precipitation crossing the southern Plains.

 

 

The two-week precipitation outlook favors heavy totals across the south, from Texas to South Carolina, and drier than normal conditions for the Central/ Northern Plains and Corn Belt.

In summary, starting tonight, a southern-track storm will drop temperatures and begin to spread snow into Kansas, Oklahoma and then eventually Missouri. Temperatures will be on a roller coaster, dropping as much as 60 degrees F, and then rebounding again on Monday. Over the next few weeks (through April 3), the GFS keeps these same southern areas “wet” and the Plains and Corn Belt somewhat dry.