BLOG: Another Winning Weekend
High pressure stationed down near the coast of North Carolina this morning and low pressure developing across the Upper Midwest with a front stretching southward into Texas. There has been a lot of discrepancy among the models in recent days concerning the next storm system and how it would affect our area, but now the the trend and models have been more confident in the forecast for Monday through Wednesday.
As for today and tomorrow, looks like nice, mild/warm, dry weather as high pressure situated
near the coast of North Carolina sends those temperatures well above average today. There are
some high and mid clouds embedded in the flow that will cross the sky at times today through
tomorrow, but still nice days today and tomorrow. Even though the high center slide east
Sunday, we still stay on the warm side. The frontal system out to the west is being held up
as the upper level energy dives southward and forms a closed low down over the lower
Mississippi Valley. Meanwhile, the low pressure area currently on the northern part of this front
more or less "breaks off" and heads into northern Quebec by Monday morning. With the
upper-level energy diving down into the Mississippi Valley. However, there will be some lower level moisture coming up in a southeasterly flow so we could have some morning fog and plenty of clouds Monday.
A shower is also not out of the question, but no steady or prolonged rain Monday, and it will remain on the warm side of average. The upper low is slated to lift northeast slowly Monday and Tuesday and current timing would bring this moisture and the good chance of rain across our area Tuesday and perhaps through Tuesday night before drier air moves in Wednesday. With the rain, it will be cooling down some Tuesday, and behind this system even more so Wednesday (but nothing out of the ordinary). We left the mention of shower in the forecast for Wednesday, but right now, it looks like most, if not all, of the day will be dry with clouds and sunshine as the storm should have moved away by morning.
High pressure is slated to bring dry, seasonably cool weather Thursday.
