Good Tuesday, everyone. As our dry and mild pattern rolls on, I’ve got my eye on another wet pattern trying to get established over the next few weeks. This should kick off later this week and kick into high gear next week, putting another heavy rain bullseye on our region.
We remain dry today through into Wednesday and most of Thursday. Highs are in the 60s and may reach 70 at any one location during this time.
By Friday, showers and thunderstorms crash in from the northwest as a cold front drops in and slows down. This puts the brakes on right on top of us and could give us additional showers and storms into early Saturday…
We will have to keep a close eye on that setup as it could put down some hefty rain amounts.
Once that goes by, things improve for Sunday, but this won’t last long as a big upper low kicks out of the Mississippi Valley. This may bring some big storms in here by Monday with another storm system following that up a few days later…
Rainfall totals through the middle of next week are concerning. Here’s the EURO…
The GFS…
And the new version of the GFS…
This whole setup comes as winter and spring fight it out right on top of us. We need one to win the battle fairly quickly or things could quickly get away from us again.
Enjoy your Tuesday and take care.
It made it up to 62 degrees at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on Monday and 66 degrees at the NWS forecast office in the SW suburbs, making this the first 60-degree day here since last November 20th.
Our dry streak has reached 15 days in a row, with only 0.03 inches of rain in that time, and nothing at all so far in March.
The huge piles of snow from shoveling and plowing continue to go down, and the ice is rapidly melting on area lakes and ponds. By the end of the week, all the snow and ice should be completely gone, with the next two days days forecast to be well in the 60s and rain likely late Wednesday into Thursday.
So far this month no rainfall has been recorded, Just beautiful weather, but afraid that may come to an end tomorrow with above normal temperatures in the mid to upper 70’s with wind.
Wild Fire potential has been posted this afternoon due to wind and low humidity here in Central Kentucky.
Flooding situations on some rivers continues, but expected to improve today and tomorrow.
Wild fire potential and flooding going on in the state at the same time. It’s like the “Tale of Two Cities.”
Let’s hope its a first round knock out and #TeamSpring gets underway ASAP