Good Tuesday, everyone. There’s little denying the weather has an affinity for the extreme lately, but what’s happening now borders on the insane. We have an historic super early season snowstorm raging in the Rockies just a day or two removed from 100 degree temps, and we are watching he southeast coast for a possible tropical system. That tropical system is throwing up a stop sign to the western cold, keeping it from just bowling east. We will finally get that system to impact our weather by the weekend.
Today’s weather will feature a mix of sun and high clouds as temps warm deep into the 80s.
From here, let’s go to the tropics. The NHC continues to give our southeastern system a greater chance at developing over the next few days. That would join Paulette and Rene out in the Atlantic…
As the system off the southeast coast slowly works toward the west, it already has some tropical juice ahead of it. We may see that edge just far enough west to impact us with some scattered showers and storms late Wednesday into Thursday. The best chance appears to be in the east…
The best threat for showers and storms returns for the weekend as our western system heads toward the Great Lakes and interacts with some juice across the east…
That front may slow down on top of us and setup a pipeline of tropical moisture out of the Gulf of Mexico into next week…
Individual tropical systems can, obviously, alter the setup for any given day. Even when it looked like this week would be a cooler one, I said the tropics can alter an entire pattern… and they are.
I will have another update later today. I leave you with your interactive radar to follow the snowstorm out in the Rockies. You may even be able to see some live storm chase cams from the area…
Have a great day and take care.
Wasn’t the very reason we were hot/dry last Sept when we had zero rain because of Atlantic hurricanes?
I don’t think that was the main reason.
Another steady, soaking rain for the Chicago Metro Area this early morning, the second time in the last three days. It’ll become more scattered by late morning, but we probably won’t make it out of the 60s today, which would be the first time since June 14th that the temperature hasn’t made it to at least 70 degrees here.
Looks like we are going into a “dry spell” for the next 7 days. I just hope it’s not going to get so hot and dry like we had a year ago and ruin our chances for a colorful Autumn.
Until the tropical activity settles down I don’t expect any “real deal cold fronts” to clear our region.
The snowstorms in the states of Wyoming and Colorado are going to be interesting to follow through today and tomorrow.
We will probably have a “bout” with Winter weather in November. Last year we had a couple of inches of wet snow in mid November and with a low temperature of 9 degrees.
That was the only and shortest Winter event of 2019-2020.