From your chief meteorologist Chris Bailey: Good Saturday, everyone. Wow… it’s cold out there. Those are words you are likely to hear a lot of over the next couple of days as temps tank. We have the potential for frosty cold readings close to the freezing mark early Sunday. The cold is king right now, but the pattern is taking on that super duper active look over the next few weeks.Let’s start with the cold. Temps today will only reach the low and mid 50s after starting the day in the upper 30s and low 40s. Gusty winds will make it feel much even colder. Some clouds will filter back in this afternoon and early evening and a shower or two may try to develop.Skies will clear tonight as winds diminish some. That combo will allow temps to drop into the low and middle 30s. A few of the colder spots have a shot at dropping below freezing. The Hi-Resolution NAM is picking up on this…Take care of the tender plants and vegetation!Sunday afternoon temps continue to look cool with upper 50s to low 60s with some clouds increasing. I can see a shower developing in the evening hours.A better chance of showers will be with us Monday with heavier rains by Tuesday…That will keep temps in the 60s for highs with the potential for even cooler numbers for areas socked in with rain on Tuesday.This is a very active pattern that will throw another system at us by the end of the week into the following weekend. The models bring a cold front with showers in here late Wednesday and Thursday and then stall it out by Friday. That allows waves of low pressure to ride across the region from the southwest. The European Model…The new GFS is a littler quicker with these systems and indicates very chilly air by the weekend. Heavy rain numbers are very possible during this time. The European Model follows all that up with another potent system.That’s also a nice shot of chill coming in behind that.Why is this pattern becoming so active? Blocking is showing up and that leads to a very amplified pattern across the country…By the way, the amount of blocking showing up is pretty tremendous for this time of year. That is usually a good sign for winter weather lovers. I will touch more on that in the coming days.Have a good Saturday and take care.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:42:23 +0000
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