Good Wednesday, folks. A cold front is working across the state today and it’s bringing another early fall feel to the region. This also has a narrow band of showers and storms along it, but the overall pattern remains skewed toward the dry side for a while.
This narrow band of showers and storms is racing through quickly from northwest to southeast. It’s fairly thin and it won’t hang out very long for any one location with the sun coming out quickly behind it. Here are your radars to follow along…
As skies clear, gusty northerly winds settle in with temps in the 70s.
A pocket of colder air will be overtop of us on Thursday and that may lead to a few instability showers going up across central and eastern Kentucky. That stuff looks super isolated, but you can see the Hi Res NAM showing a few spots picking up on some drops…
With a mix of sun and clouds around, highs are held in the 70s…
Lows Thursday and Friday are mainly upper 40s to low 50s. Friday looks awesome with highs again in the 70s for many with a clean sky.
Dry and pleasant weather takes us into the weekend and through early next week. Dare I say this pattern looks boring?
The one thing that could make things interesting would come from the tropics. The system heading toward Florida still has a chance to increase as Hurricane Larry stays way out in the Atlantic…
Let’s look a little longer range toward late fall and the first part of winter. The latest CFS forecast continues to have a cold look during this period. Look at all the below normal numbers from November through January…
Here’s a look at the precipitation anomalies for the same period…
Interesting look there, huh?
Have a great day and take care.
Add to that a negative AO and a neutral ENSO, and you’ve got the makings of a respectable Winter!
Looks to be a great week.
Here is the link for the NWS summary of the severe weather that took place across Northern IL and the Chicago Metro Area on Tuesday afternoon: http://weather.gov/lot/2021sept07
A few locations in North Central IL received tennis-ball sized hail, and there may have been a brief tornado which caused significant wind damage in Western Will County, about 50 miles SW of Chicago.
I took the liberty of watching the news/weather out of Chicago. The accumulated hail looked like Snow on the deck. Also many photos of the damage in the areas hardest hit.
The atmospheric condition must have been “just right” and that is the odd thing as these events are Spring events.
Hopefully, this will be the last severe weather event for the year 2021 in the Chicago area ?
Yeah, the severe weather season really took a while to get started here, but once it did in June, it really made up for lost time! We had more than our fair share of severe weather events here during the summer.
I was surprised by the lack of severe weather in Kentucky over the summer. You guys received some good rains, but without the severe weather.