Mainly Dry and Warmer
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Our spell of great weather with a warming trend continues as we head into the upcoming week. Temperatures will continue to climb with highs expected to reach 90 degrees on Tuesday and Wednesday. We should remain primarily dry, too, though a few isolated showers are possible today as the upper closed low opens up and the trough moves by us today. Radar this morning showed only a few showers in Mississippi and with moisture fairly limited, showers should remain isolated so few of us will see much in our rain gauges.
A strong short wave trough will move into and across the Great Lakes on Wednesday and Thursday. This is likely to bring a front into the area on Thursday with a reasonable chance for some showers. Again, it is not likely to produce a widespread rain event, but it should bring a shot of cooler air into the eastern half of the country. This will drop highs back into the lower 80s along with lows in the upper 50s by Saturday.
Tropics remain somewhat active with an expiring Nate and a Maria that is having trouble coming together. Nate has moved ashore on the Mexican coast of the Southwest Gulf of Mexico and should be dissipating over the next 36 hours. Maria was located in the northern Leeward Islands but continued to be only a tropical storm. Maria will move northwestward and then northward recurving away from the US and around Bermuda over the next several days. Maria is also forecast to gain hurricane status in a couple of days – around Wednesday – as it does stay in the open water of the Atlantic.
GFS still suggesting another cool down around the 21st but not nearly as strong as what it was projecting yesterday. However, at the very end of the period – around the 27th – the GFS brings back a BIG ridge over the Central US with another tropical storm off the Southeast US coast. Ridge almost looks too big for this time of year. But this is the flipping and flopping that we have become accustomed too in the long range forecasts.
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