Good Thursday afternoon everyone and thanks for dropping by the blog. We have a lot of weather that will be coming down the road over the next few weeks as the overall pattern gets ready to take a nose dive into winter. I have been looking at some updated seasonal models for the next few months and the pattern they show makes me smile! Actually… the pattern before this month is over may make  a few of you smile, too.

Let’s get started with where we are now. It’s a blustery and chilly day with upper 40s and low 50s. Friday will see some milder air beginning to move into the state. Highs will be well into the 50s after a cold start.


The weekend weather looks flat out awesome! Highs will generally range in the 60s for Saturday and Sunday and this should carry us into Monday as well.

After that… things begin to quickly change as a trough swings through the region Tuesday. This happens as Ida moves into the Gulf of Mexico and likely becomes a Hurricane. Here is the latest on Ida…

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What happens to this storm once in the gulf? That will be something to watch for as it will have, at least, an indirect impact on our weather around here for Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. The GFS and European model suggest we get some indirect moisture from the gulf to stream northward to interact with a front moving through here Tuesday. You can see this on the GFS…



The Canadian says to heck with the indirect stuff and brings what is left of Ida through here Tuesday…




Again… that is something to watch for. Regardless… our string of Indian Summer will last a whopping 3 days as the models go down to defeat once again. They pretty much had the entire week warm and that ain’t happening. They tried the same thing for this week… how did that turn out? Listen folks… our weather has been biased cold all year long and that ain’t changing anytime soon! As a matter of fact… it has a chance to go toward the extreme this winter!!!

How is the mid month cold shot looking today? Hmmm… you be the judge…

GFS November 15th

Enjoy the rest of your day and take care.