Category: Unseasonably Cool Weather

Highlights:

• Scattered Showers And Storms
• Turning Much Cooler
• Unsettled Early Next Week

Have The Jackets Ready…The first of two cold fronts will sweep through the state this evening and help spark scattered strong to severe thunderstorms this afternoon and evening across mostly the eastern half of the state.  A secondary cold front will move through here Friday evening with showers Friday night into early Saturday.  It’s this second front that packs the much cooler air.  Jackets will be required this weekend, and scattered light showers will remain in our forecast Saturday.

As we push into the new work week, things appear to be rather unsettled (what’s new)?  An area of low pressure will push towards the region Tuesday into Wednesday and will increase rain and embedded storm chances.  It won’t rain the entire time, but we’ll want the rain gear handy.

Highlights:

• Warm and humid mid week
• Turning much cooler for the weekend
• Unsettled times remain

Jackets Required This Weekend…Wednesday’s coverage of showers and thunderstorms will likely be less than today, but will still require a mention of “scattered” coverage in our forecast.  Some locally heavy downpours are possible, but like today, heavy rain totals won’t be uniform.  Better coverage of showers and thunderstorms will move in early Thursday in association with a cold front.  Once that cold front passes, expect a northwest wind shift and a much cooler feel of things to wrap up the work week and head into the weekend.

A weak disturbance will provide showers late Friday into the early morning hours Saturday, but this won’t amount to significant rain totals.

Cool times remain into early and middle parts of next week, with our next chance of significant rain slated for Tuesday.

Highlights:

• Scattered showers and storms continue
• Big cool blast looms
• Renewed wet stretch next week?

Active Times…It’s not so much the amount of rain that we’re seeing, but the overall duration of the gloomy, wet times.  A stalled frontal boundary will remain draped over central parts of the state over the next 72 hours and this will help create periods of showers and thunderstorms through mid week.  Localized heavy rain is possible, but the heavy rain totals certainly won’t fall in a “uniform” fashion.  Tuesday afternoon and evening appears to still offer up a strong to severe thunderstorm chance.

Eventually a cold front will sweep the state Thursday and help usher in a much cooler air mass to wrap up the work week.  An upper level disturbance will follow and provide a period of showers and light rain Friday evening.  A spotty shower may continue Saturday with the much cooler air, but more widespread rains look to build in Sunday into Monday.  There remains a great deal of disagreement on the forecast late in the weekend into early next week, so stay tuned as we fine tune things in the days ahead.

It’s a busy pattern, indeed, friends…