Accuweather.com- 4/25/13, Joe Lundburg

In a follow up to Monday's post, I thought I would toss out a couple of other items of interest as it relates to the easing of the cold, stormy, snowy weather pattern we've been stuck with for a long, long time. Two main things jumped off the page to me this morning in terms of the big picture, and while they won't necessarily mean we flip a switch and go to summer, they do portend a much warmer pattern overall.

The first of these is the slow but very noticeable retreat of the jet stream. Look at how it appears across the country this morning: