Sunny and Dry!

A beautiful sunny summer day is in store for us. It will be great, and it is sorely needed.  Tomorrow should be dry through the daylight hours. So another plus there.

Sunday, Monday, and most of next Tuesday should be sunny and dry also.  Another big plus as high pressure controls our weather with much lower humidity.

I skipped over Friday, Saturday and Tuesday night/Wednesday of next week for a reason: concern for possible heavy rain. Details:

1. Cold front approaches the area Friday, but it slows down and does not move through until later Saturday. This allows for deep moisture to surge into our area Thursday night and remain through early Saturday. With pockets of energy moving through there will be chances for showers and storms from Thu night through Saturday afternoon. Heavy rain is possible due to the moisture, and since we are so wet and just recovering from flooding, the flash flood threat will be moderate.
2. The next Tuesday night/Wednesday system looks to be a strong trough for this time of year, and that is good, but also bad. Good: it will move through and not stall out like some have been doing. Bad: It would pull deep moisture north and bring widespread short duration bout of heavy rain for everyone. Flash flood threat will be moderate (low if we get less than 1” rain Fri/Sat).

Once we get through next Tuesday, the pattern begins to shift a little: Still a trough in the east, and a ridge out west, but due to the beginning of things shifting for late summer (days shorter, temperatures cooling esp. in Canada the jet strengthens and moves fronts/troughs along faster), we look to enter a period of faster moving fronts that bring one day of showers/storms and then a 2-3 day break, then a day of showers/storms. This should give us the chance to dry out some and remove the flooding threat.

Enjoy.