Good Monday, folks. We have a busy final week of July taking shape as our pattern changes a lot in the next several days. Steamy temps will give way to stormy skies before a familiar pattern takes hold by the end of the week. That’s when another trough digs into the eastern half of the country, taking our temps below normal again.
We have a weak front draped across the state today and it’s touching off a few rounds of showers and storms. The greatest threat continues to be across the southern half of the state, where some locally heavy rains may show up. Here are your radars to walk you through it…
Temps are super steamy today with the numbers ranging from the middle 80s to a few low 90s. Humidity levels are adding to it all, so it’s going to feel very sweaty out there.
Tuesday and Wednesday have the potential to be the top temp dogs of the entire summer as highs range from the upper 80s to low 90s. Heat index values will be toastier than that. 🥵
The pattern then changes on a dime for the end of the week as another potent cold front works in here from the northwest. This is being pushed by another deepening trough across the eastern half of the country for the final days of July into the start of August…
This will likely bring the potential for strong storms our way late Thursday into early Friday…
Another system then drops in behind this later next weekend and early the next week…
The GFS is forecasting temps well below normal for the first 7 days of August…
This is essentially a continuation of the pattern we’ve been in all summer. Actually, this goes all the way back to our cold spring.
Have a great Monday and take care.
After Wednesday I will be looking forward to next weeks forecast temps.
Actually it looks and feels like late Summer. Hopefully, we will get back to the more comfortable Summer weather by the end of the week.
No rainfall to report for my area of central Kentucky yesterday, just a couple of distance thunder rumbles along with very oppressive dew points.
Tropics will get active when we phase back into ENSO La Nina from the current ENSO neutral phase, but there is a slight chance this won’t happen.
Here is a link for the recap of the scattered severe weather event from Saturday across the Chicago Metro Area. A broken line of scattered strong storms moved from north to south across the area during the afternoon and evening, causing a few Severe T-Storm Warnings to be issued. Included is a pretty amazing photo of an ominous shelf cloud over downtown Chicago. http://weather.gov/lot/2021jul24
That’s a very impressive and scary cloud. If I saw that I would head for my basement.
Chicago has really had a lot of stormy days this Summer.
The heat is on for next two or three days. Oh well it is July after all and i will survive it as always. Have a good afternoon!
im really not a fan of winter so hope the heat sticks around. im gonna miss this heat when its gone. daylight hours are noticeably shorter and that makes me sad. but it is july and we got a few months of decent weather left and that makes me happy lol …..lets face it, im a mess. winter depression is very real 🙁