The overall weather pattern over the course of the upcoming 7-10 days will be one that we’ve grown quite accustomed to. In the midst of a warmer and more humid couple days (back to seasonal and slightly above normal levels), confidence continues to grow on a pattern that will feature well below normal temperatures as we put a wrap on July.
Here are a couple of maps we created this evening depicting the upper air pattern week 1 and week 2. We’re eyeing a one-two punch of cool, fall-ish, air that will have things feeling “out of season” yet again.
A cold front will pass through our neck of the woods Wednesday with scattered showers and thunderstorms. We’re not looking at heavy rain totals, but potential is there for a quick 0.25″-0.75″ as the front drops through. A couple of strong to severe storms are possible, especially south and east of the city Wednesday afternoon as this front passes.
Then we shift our eyes to an unsettled weekend. While it won’t rain the entire time, showers and thunderstorms will be in our forecast over the weekend in front of a reinforcing (stronger) blast of cool air that will blow in early next week. Again, rain potential isn’t terribly impressive, but we’ll take what we can get (things are turning mighty dry out there as we’re down more than 2″ MTD). The way we see things now would suggest 0.50″-1″ type rains over the weekend.
Once to next week “cool” is the word. Needless to say, we’re going to wrap up July with a feel that’s very much like autumn. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise us if we set a couple records for the cool air next week. More on that and the rain chances ahead a bit later. Have a fantastic evening!