Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Another day of clouds and showers

Yesterday was pretty much as expected, gusty winds of up to 47 mph, heavy rainfall with rainfall amounts up to .75". Today is not going to be much different, a strong low pressure system will stay south of the state early today and into the middle of the afternoon with begin to move east. The low pressure is going to act like a pumping mechanism bring moisture up to our area through the day and overnight hours. Until this low moves east we'll continue to see gusty winds and showers.

After this weather system passes warmer temperatures are on the way. In fact, we could see highs top out in the upper 60s through the end of the week. Sunday and Monday look like a very different story.
Sunday another wave of low pressure comes in from the south. While it looks like warm air advection in front of this system it's another story by Monday morning.
You can see 850 mb temperatures drop into -6 to -10. That's moderately colder air for this time of year and we'll have to watch to see if this moderates at all over the next couple of days.

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