Good Friday, folks. It’s the final Friday of the month as 2021 keeps flying by. As we head into the weekend, we have a more typical summertime setup with near normal temps and a few scattered storms kicking in. The stormy pattern looks to increase in the closing days of June and into the first week of July.
Temps are into the 80s today with a mix of sun and clouds as southwest winds gust up. A shower or storm will be possible, especially across the north and west. This is also the area close to a low-end severe storms risk from the Storm Prediction Center…
Scattered storms will then be around over the weekend, but there will be many more dry hours than wet hours. Some of us may not see much, if anything, in terms of storm action. Highs continue to roll in the normal 80s.
The threat for showers and storms will then increase early next week as a plains system slowly works our way. This is likely to hang around through much of the week.
What happens after this as we get into the 4th of July weekend? The models are all hinting at a fairly deep trough digging back into the region during this time and it may be a slow mover, keeping showers and storms around. The EURO is going full blown cutoff low…
That would bring some cool and ugly weather our way. The term “hot as the 4th of July” may not apply to this Independence Day.
The tropics continue to be alive and kicking with some early season action across the Atlantic…
As I mentioned yesterday, this is early for those kinds of storms and is likely an indicator of another very busy hurricane season in the making.
As we look into July, the new EURO Weeklies are pointing toward a continuation of the same pattern June has given us…
That keeps the serious heat away from us and would imply normal to below normal numbers. This would also be a wetter than normal pattern for this entire region and for much of the plains states and east.
I leave you with your radars to track the action of the day…
Make it a great day and take care.
I am glad to see you’re not posting GFS data.
I dislike the upcoming pattern.
Waves of showers and storms, some with heavy rain, are going through the Chicago area this morning, as a Flash Flood Watch is in effect for much of Illinois, including the Chicago Metro Area (except for the counties near the Wisconsin border), until Saturday morning. This will definitely go a long way in alleviating the drought situation here, as 3 to 5 inches of rain is predicted by Sunday morning for the West and SW Suburbs of Chicago and 2 to 3 inches for the North and NW Suburbs.
The strongest storms this morning are in Northern Missouri and downstate IL, north of St. Louis.
This Summer so far reminds me of the Summers of the 1960’s. Typical for the Ohio Valley.
What’s unusual is the tremendous heat wave in the Northwest part of the country. This happened in 1981.
I hope the Tropical action is a no show.
We have not truly had a hot summer since 2012. Its like 2012 was the year Kentucky Weather flipped its lid and still hasn’t decided to come back to normal yet. Oh sure we had that September of 2019 but even then we didn’t reach triple digit heat. I miss honest to goodness heat.
You may get your real heat when it begins to cool off on the West Coast later this Summer ?