GOES-10 Science Test

Weather Synopsis - 04 April/12UTC to 05 April/12UTC 1998





Synoptic Situation:


An upper level low was located along the West Coast, and also
over New England and the western Atlantic. A relatively flat 
ridge aloft was in place across the central United States.


At the surface, a low and associated cold front moved off the 
East Coast, with the trailing portion of the cold front across 
the Florida peninsula. A post-frontal trough axis moved southward 
across the mid-Atlantic region. High pressure dominated the Great 
Lakes region and the central U.S., while a weak trough of low 
pressure moved eastward across the Rockies.
 

Weather Conditions:



No severe weather was reported across the U.S. this period. 
Rain fell across the mid-Atlantic region in the wake of the 
exiting upper low/cold front, with amounts of up to 1.5 inches 
reported in parts of Virginia and Maryland. Light rains fell 
near the trailing cold front across Florida. Valley rain and 
mountain snow spread across California into the Intermountain 
region and the northern Plains, and also across parts of New 
England.  Precipitation amounts were generally light in these
areas.