So Long Winter?

This picture was taken on Feb 11th just down the street from Casa Benson atop Signal Mountain. This is an awesome snowman that was about 7 feet tall. I'm not sure who lives there, but last year they built a pretty neat snow family complete with the family dog. I'll use this as the leaping point for today's post because this guy is either waving "Hello" or "Goodbye". And at the risk of writing Old Man Winters obituary prematurely, I think he's waving "TAA TAA".
We have a huge trough off the west coast of the United States spinning storminess onshore out there. With a ridge buckling northward over our heads the next few days, we'll see rather bland weather heading right through the weekend. One piece of a storm moves past us to the north Sunday night and into Monday with a slight chance for some sprinkles or light showers then. But not the kind of soaking rain we need to douse the brush fire threat. After a cool weekend, we'll see highs climbing back into the 60s next week, and in fact we could be into the upper 60s by the end of the week. The longer range models have rounds of thunderstorms firing up in the plains states down the road. Those would be moving east towards us from time to time. If our western trough keeps progressing east, this would make a lot of sense. And we are getting into the meat of severe weather season the next few months. So even though it's not as warm as Wednesday and Thursday this weekend, let's enjoy the tranquil weather while it's here. Have a great weekend!