Dreary Wet Day - 03/23/14

This is just a test post to a new blog platform. I have lots of tweaking and fixing up to do here, but I'll hopefully have most of it finished up in a few days so I can start doing the blog again!
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Good Sunday morning to everyone!
Looks like a dreary day today, with some light showers approaching from the west as the morning goes on. A good description for this weeks weather was given in an early morning Area Forecast discussion (which appear here on the FB page automatically now) by the Atlanta NWS office:

.LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/...

ROLLER-COASTER OF A FORECAST THROUGH THE EXTENDED FORECAST PERIOD. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS REMAIN FAIRLY CONSISTENT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK... BUT DO DIVERGE SOMEWHAT CONCERNING THE MAGNITUDE OF THE SYSTEM HEADING INTO AND THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

FORECAST PERIOD STARTS OUT WITH A TOUCH OF WINTER RETURNING TO THE REGION. MODELS HAVE BEEN SLOWLY TRENDING A BIT WARMER FOR THE MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY MORNING TIME FRAME... BUT STILL BRING TEMPERATURES IN THE NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAINS COOL ENOUGH FOR A CHANCE OF A RAIN/SNOW MIXTURE LATE MONDAY NIGHT/EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. LOWS REMAIN AT OR ABOVE FREEZING... HOWEVER TEMPERATURES WILL COOL ENOUGH FOR SOME OF THE PRECIPITATION TO REACH THE GROUND AS A MIXTURE... GENERALLY AT MODERATE TO HIGHER ELEVATIONS IN THE NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAINS. POPS REMAIN ONLY CHANCE LEVELS RIGHT NOW AND POTENTIAL QPF NUMBERS ARE LIKEWISE QUITE LIMITED. NO ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
MUCH COLDER AIR STREAMS IN BEHIND THIS SYSTEM... AT LEAST BRIEFLY... WITH FREEZING TEMPERATURES LIKELY ACROSS ALL OF NORTH AND MUCH OF CENTRAL GEORGIA WEDNESDAY MORNING.

QUICK RECOVERY TO AT OR ABOVE SEASONAL NORMAL TEMPERATURES BY THE END OF THE WEEK AS THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW BEGINS TO AMPLIFY AND FLOW BECOMES MORE SOUTHWESTERLY ALOFT. DECENT RAIN CHANCES MOVE INTO THE STATE BY THE END OF THE WORK WEEK... AND LINGER THROUGH THE WEEKEND. MODELS ARE SHOWING MODERATE INSTABILITY ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE MAJORITY OF THIS PERIOD AND I HAVE INCLUDED THUNDER THROUGH THE LATTER PORTION OF THE EXTENDED FORECAST PERIOD.

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