VIDEO: Unsettled Weather Returns; Early Taste Of Autumn By Friday…
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Unsettled Weather Returns; Feeling Like Late September By The Weekend…
Highlights:
- Dry start to the work week
- Shower and storm chances return
- Much cooler by the weekend
Welcome To A New Work Week…As we open the new work week, we’ll continue to deal with the same weather pattern that provided us the delightful weather over the weekend. High pressure will grudgingly give up control Tuesday into Wednesday with moisture returning. Initially, coverage of showers will be “spotty” at best, but better coverage of showers and thunderstorms will return as we progress into midweek. Thursday appears to be the wettest day as a cold front pushes closer to the region.
That cold front will sweep through the state Friday morning and result in a MUCH cooler air mass filtering into the region as we close the work week and head into the weekend. While we’ll certainly notice the much cooler air, we have to maintain mention of a passing shower over the weekend thanks to lingering upper level energy. Despite scattered showers around the region, most of the weekend will be rain-free. The bigger story will be the late-September like air over the weekend.
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: 0.00″
- Rainfall: 0.50″ – 1.00″
Even Cooler Next Weekend: Early Taste Of Autumn…
The weather this weekend has been simply stunning. We’ve enjoyed unseasonably cool and refreshing air to go along with wall-to-wall sunshine. If you’re a fan of the unseasonably refreshing conditions, you’re in luck, as another blast of September-like air will arrive next weekend.
A cold front will sweep through the state Friday morning. While we’ll handle the specifics from a precipitation perspective in later posts, most widespread showers and thunderstorms appear to arrive Thursday. A deep trough will take up residence across the Mid West and East next weekend and result in temperatures more like late-September that early-August.
Look for fairly steady or slowly falling temperatures Friday afternoon (how often can we say that in early August?!) along with a gusty northwest breeze. That will set the tone for the weekend that will include low temperatures in the lower to middle 50s and highs in the middle 70s. Unlike this weekend, we’ll have a few more clouds and the threat of a passing shower with enough upper level energy around.
Much more later! Enjoy your Sunday, friends!
Refreshing Last Weekend Of July…
Highlights:
- Wall-to-wall sunshine
- Comfortable temperatures
- Rain chances return
- Even cooler next weekend
Can’t Beat This Weather…The short-term is very simple. High pressure will dominate our pattern through early next week and result in very refreshing conditions. With a north-northeast flow in place, unseasonably cool and dry air will continue to flow into the region through the weekend. Get out and enjoy it!
Temperatures will slowly moderate heading into mid week and moisture will return ahead of a cold front Wednesday into Thursday. Greatest overall rain coverage should arrive on the scene Thursday, including chances of thunderstorms. Similar to this week, the cold front will pass Thursday night/ Friday morning and result in a drier ending to the work week. An early look at next weekend shows another anomalous trough digging into the Mid West. The end result will likely be temperatures that are even cooler than this weekend. Mid-upper 70s for highs, perhaps?!
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: 0.00″
- Rainfall: 0.50″ – 1.00″
JMA Weeklies: Hottest Of The Summer Is Behind Us…
The new JMA Weeklies are in and highlighted by the following:
- An unseasonably cool close to July
- Worst of the summer heat is behind us
- Warmest anomalies along the East and West Coasts
Week 1:
A trough will sink into the central and eastern portions of the country and result in rather widespread below normal and quite refreshing conditions as we close the month of July. Along with the cool, dry air will come an extended stretch of rain-free conditions through the latter portions of next week.
Week 2:
The JMA suggests the mean trough position will remain across the central portions of the country with signals of ridging developing along the Northwest coast. Cool, wet weather (compared to average) is forecast central as the heat continues across the West. We also note developing warmth across the Northeast region.
Weeks 3-4:
Seasonal temperatures are set to unfold across the central late August with warmest anomalies painting themselves across the Northeast and Northwest portions of the country. The pattern, locally, is set to become more active from a precipitation perspective as wet conditions return.
