Highlights:
- Summer-like heat continues
- Dry times prevail
- Much cooler air looms
A Little Something For Everyone…If you’re a fan of summer, this forecast has it! If you’re a fan of fall, this forecast has that, too! Summer-like heat will dominate through the short-term with only a slight chance of an isolated thunderstorm today. Most will remain dry and that dry theme will carry us into the new work week ahead. Unseasonably hot (upper 80s to near 90 is downright hot) conditions will also continue as we open up the new week.
That said, a long advertised cold front will push towards the region by midweek and this will provide enough lift to create widely scattered thunderstorms Wednesday into Thursday morning. Significant and widespread rains aren’t, unfortunately, anticipated. The bigger deal will be the much cooler air that will spill into the region Thursday and set the stage for an unseasonably cool open to October.
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: 0.00″
- Rainfall: 0.10″ – 0.25″
However, a cold front will approach the middle part of next week and while this won’t be an efficient rain producer, it will serve to deliver a return of fall-like air as we close September and open October. From a precipitation stand point, rainfall amounts look “anemic” at best over the upcoming 7-10 days.
Highlights:
That will flip around in big time fashion this week as a highly amplified pattern takes hold. The mean trough position will shift into the west and lead to an early taste of winter, including mountain snow. Meanwhile, our region will make up for lost time in the summer department, including highs generally in the mid to upper 80s (around 10° above average).
Daily chances of widely scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms will be with us beginning today through the majority of the upcoming week. Everyone won’t get wet, but there will be a couple of localized heavy downpours on area radars at times. As dry as we’ve been, we’ll take what we can get.
Eventually, the pattern will “relax” (at least briefly) out towards Day 10. This will feature a more seasonable regime returning to the region, along with better chances of more widespread rains as a cold front approaches. We’ll also have to keep a close eye on additional tropical threats to the southeast region…