Good Saturday and welcome to the weekend. We are coming off the best weather week of the entire year and that’s rolling into the weekend as temps warm. That’s a warming trend that takes us into the start of the new week before big changes toward a chilly pattern show up.
As usual, we begin with today and roll forward. Highs are in the low to middle 80s for many with the digits a bit above in the west. That trend takes us into Sunday as a few clouds show up from the northwest. Those clouds are ahead of a system mainly passing to our north, but it’s close enough to fire off some scattered showers and storms Monday into Tuesday. The models show the best chance across central and eastern Kentucky…
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This is on the edge of a quick burst of even toastier temps into the middle of next week. That quickly gets erased as our pattern changes by the second half of next week.
As all this is going on, check out another example of extreme weather…
There hasn't been a September storm this strong in the northern Bering Sea region in the past 70 years. Friday 10pm AKDT forecast pressure and wind speed. Historic level coastal flooding Saturday into Sunday for many communities. #akwx #superstorm @Climatologist49 @knomradio pic.twitter.com/GeevYjguHF
— Rick Thoman (@AlaskaWx) September 16, 2022
That’s likely to play a factor in the overall pattern, too.
I’m confident on a deepening trough getting established across the eastern part of the country during this time and into the final week of September. The wild card would be any interaction with Tropical Storm Fiona. Here’s the latest on that storm…
We still have a long time to go before getting a full handle on what Fiona does, but the new model trends are back toward a recurving system off the east coast. Why? The trough comes in ahead of it and turns it east…
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This unleashes a very pleasant brand of air that has the potential to turn downright chilly for our region and much of the eastern half of the country.
Have a great Saturday and take care.
Interesting this Typhoon Mangkhut, but one would have to go back 70 years to see if it the last major Typhoon in the Bering Sea had an effect on our climate ? Trough in the Eastern half of the country ?
Tropical Storm Fiona could achieve Hurricane status sometime soon. Hopefully, she won’t head for the Gulf and become a major Hurricane, but preferably curve out into the Atlantic and dissipate ?
Don’t care for the 90 degree plus temperatures at mid week with this ongoing ‘ pocket drought ‘ in my area. No telling when it will end. Kind of wondering now when our first good frost will occur ?
Just for fun, I look up Alaska 70 years ago 1952 and found that the Winter 1952-3 was very Snowy breaking records in the State of Alaska. Here’s the link with a lot of beautiful Snow scenes :
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/alaska/largest-snowfall-alaska/