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Dinnertime Rambles: Quiet Through The Short-Term And Longer Range Musings…

I. Drier air continues to surge south and with it will come much cooler temperatures overnight into Tuesday morning. We still believe most central Indiana reporting sites will fall into the middle 50s Tuesday morning. Turn off that A/C and open up those windows!

II. Weak upper level energy will push south and lead to isolated to widely scattered instability-driven showers across northern parts of the state tomorrow afternoon. A couple of these quick-moving showers could scoot into central Indiana, but we continue to believe most will remain free of any precipitation tomorrow.

III. Overall, we’re looking at a very quiet weather pattern through the weekend with an extended period of dry weather, thanks to high pressure. Temperatures will slowly warm from the unseasonably cool and refreshing levels into mid week to more of a seasonal feel this weekend.

IV. As we look ahead, the upper air pattern should transition to more of a classic summer-like regime to open August. However, data shows the ridge continuing to “retrograde” west with time, resulting in a period of wetter conditions with a northwest flow aloft Days 10-15 (roughly Aug 2nd- Aug 7th). It’s always good to see agreement between the European and GFS ensemble products below.

V. Research continues on the upcoming fall and winter and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the warm sea-surface temperatures across the northeastern Pacific. Interestingly, most seasonal model data maintains this warm “blob” into the late fall and early winter. Note where we are currently (center photo) vs. where the projection off the UKMET (top left) for Oct-Dec and European (bottom left) for Nov-Jan.

While only 1 of several ingredients used in building our seasonal outlooks, this can promote the tendency for more persistent western ridging and downstream trough (associated colder pattern) across the East…

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Early August Ideas…

The year continues to fly by! We’re now finalizing our forecast for the last month of meteorological summer and will include a look-ahead to our early fall ideas with the official August Outlook that hits the site later next week. With that said, here are some of our early August ideas:

I. Sea surface temperatures remain well above average through the western Atlantic basin as well as the northeastern Pacific. This should promote warmer than normal conditions, overall, along the coastal areas. Additionally, we’ll need to continue to keep a close eye on the potential of additional “home grown” (Gulf of Mexico and off the southeast US coast) tropical development as we move closer to the peak of the hurricane season.

II. The MJO isn’t nearly as hyper as months past. While we’ll continue to keep a close eye on things, we currently don’t anticipate being able to lean on this tool as a good indicator for what may transpire through the month of August (at least early on).

III. We need to keep a very close eye on the EPO over the upcoming week to see if modeling continues to project a significantly negative phase into August. This can “up the ante” for a cooler than normal central US during August if so.

IV. Lack of widespread drought/ dryness. The wet spring and early summer really can help make an impact longer term and that has been seen as early as this week (added humidity with the heat wave), but also helps overall when it comes to late summer and the respect to the staying power, or longevity, of heat waves.

Here’s our early thinking with respect to August temperatures and precipitation. Again, our final, more detailed, outlook will be issued next week!

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Weekly #AGwx And Severe Weather Outlook…

Forecast period: 07.21.19 through 07.28.19

7-Day Precipitation: Rainfall is expected to run near average through the period.

7-Day Temperature Outlook: Temperatures are expected to run below average through the forecast period.

Severe Outlook: A strong cold front will slice into the unusually hot and humid air tomorrow afternoon and likely spark an increase in overall thunderstorm coverage. A few storms may become severe with large hail and damaging winds. Otherwise, after Sunday, severe weather isn’t expected through the remainder of the forecast period.

Summary: Hang in there, friends. Today will be the last ridiculously hot and humid day before we start to note relief. Sunday will still be hot and plenty humid, but will be the start of a cooler regime that will take hold in earnest by early parts of the work week. Before that, a cold front will spark scattered to numerous thunderstorms Sunday afternoon and evening and a few of these could become strong to severe. Linger upper level energy will keep shower chances in our forecast Tuesday with the much cooler temperatures. As we look forward, the next organized chance of rain and thunderstorms will come next weekend as another cold front sweeps through the Ohio Valley along with reinforcing pleasantly cool air behind the boundary.

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