Nothing much to get excited about today. SPC has a slight risk issued for the DRT area based mainly for downstream of “old faithful”. Otherwise, the CONUS is dominated by a mid-continent ridge with an exiting upper-level low off the east coast and a trough digging through nrn NV. This west coast upper trough will be the weather-maker for the week. In fact, this trough is progged to become very positively tilted and progress only slowly eastward.

That being said, it appears that our best bet for *severe* convection in our CASA domain may be late tomorrow afternoon/early evening as a cold front drapes across OK. Therefore, we have performed all the intro seminars this afternoon and this evening, Dave and Dan P. are working through a CASA case. Ron P. and dan M. are working through a PAR training case.

Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 12-16 May)