Good Sunday, everyone. Temps have been incredibly warm to start November and that’s going to continue for a few more days before we change it up in a hurry. Those changes come as another extreme pattern takes hold across the country with a blizzard in the northern Rockies and a Tropical Storm closing in on Florida. Eventually, we see all this conspire against our nice weather, bringing rain and storms by Tuesday.
Let’s start with the blizzard and then get into the rest of the weather program. Take our exclusive interactive radar for a trip out west to follow this wild blast of winter as it develops in Montana and Wyoming…
That’s going to be a big time weather headline maker over the next few days. Snow will fly deep into California through Arizona and New Mexico. Jealous, yet?
Tropical Storm ETA continues to track toward Cuba and then will cross south Florida into the Gulf of Mexico. From there, this storm has some potential to drift a little farther south and west and just spin around several days. If it does so, it can become a full-blown hurricane. Here’s the latest from the National Hurricane Center…
The latest from the Hurricane Models show the slow-moving potential…
Ok, let’s start to focus on our weather a little more as we get ready to change it up. A cold front works toward the region late Tuesday into Wednesday and will interact with some moisture surging northward into the region. That touches off showers and thunderstorms on Tuesday and there’s the chance for heavy rain, gusty winds and a few strong storms. Here’s the NAM for Tuesday and Tuesday night…
That action likely lasts through Wednesday as seasonal temps slam in from the northwest. The EURO actually keeps rain going into Thursday morning…
From there, things get a little murky because of what ETA decides to do. Regardless, we are likely to see a very strong storm system develop in the lower Mississippi Valley and roll into our region next weekend…
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GFS
I will have your usual update later today, so check back. Have a good one and take care.
Unprecedented November warmth continues across the Chicago area. Saturday’s high of 72 degrees at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport was the fourth consecutive day of 70+ degree weather, which is the first time this has happened in November here since 2015 and only the fifth time ever. Three more days in the 70s are predicted, which would make it seven straight days of 70+ degree weather, which has never happened before during the month of November in Chicago.
To put things in perspective, last year on November 7th, the high at O’Hare was 31 degrees, the low 20 degrees.
It’s also been very dry, with no rain having occurred in the past 11 days.
Here’s an interesting public information statement from the NWS in Chicago regarding this rare early November warmth. http://weather.gov/lot/2020NovemberWarmth
Thanks Mike for sharing. Yesterday we had a high temperature of 75 degrees. I don’t know if that was a record for Taylor county or not.
It is beginning to get dry here too and this will likely continue until the “southeast ridge” weakens and moves southeast from the mid Atlantic.
I would sure like to see some changes back to more late Fall like weather, but at this time it doesn’t look likely.
Weather is always changing right ?
A year ago today we were all commenting on a coming snowstorm and cold Arctic air to invade the Ohio Valley.
I made a comment wish that it would snow on my birthday (November 13th.)
It snowed 2 inches on the 12th of November 2019 and melted on the 13th LOL
Hows that for luck? LOL
Thanks, Chris. Nashville TN may get into the low 80s today. Already 74 now. Yesterday was a great day…to mow and rake leaves. Nevertheless, our little girl sure loved playing in the leaf piles 🙂 .
Southern California is finally getting in on the start of their wet season with coastal/valley rain and mountain snow. Could be very helpful with the fires. But it also finally gives meteorologists and other weather weenies there something to talk about. Must be challenging to forecast the same boring sunny weather all through the summer dry season.
Everybody have a great Sunday.