A superb February morning is shaping up, with clear skies and mild temperatures at sunrise. I've recorded a predawn low temp of 43.9F (6.6C), which is warmer than our HIGH temps were on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There has been no precipitation overnight, and humidity is low, at 37%.
The strong high pressure ridge which has been dominating our weather since late Sunday night is providing an even more robust warm-up than anticipated... and I'm sure there are very few complaints about that. As long as not too many high clouds creep in from the west-southwest today, we should enjoy enough sunshine in combination with this much milder air mass to boost our high temp close to the warmest since the 2nd of Feb (56.3F/13.5C). That's still a couple of degrees (F) below normal for the date, but it's certainly a huge improvement over our recent much colder than normal temps. The snow melt theme will continue in earnest today.
It still looks like we'll have a change in the weather pattern again starting tomorrow, as this high pressure ridge breaks down and gets replaced by a wobbling flow of upper-level disturbances. Rain chances are looking minimal for us, but there will likely be some periods of significant cloudiness on Wednesday, and occasional clouds on Thursday and Friday as well. Temperatures will slide downward a bit in response to these changes.
Our next chance of significant precipitation is in the forecast for Friday night through Saturday night, as a stronger system eases in from the west and some juicier moisture is drawn northward ahead of it. That will be our main thing to keep track of during the coming several days...
Our CURRENT FORECAST is available on the tab at the top of the page.
The strong high pressure ridge which has been dominating our weather since late Sunday night is providing an even more robust warm-up than anticipated... and I'm sure there are very few complaints about that. As long as not too many high clouds creep in from the west-southwest today, we should enjoy enough sunshine in combination with this much milder air mass to boost our high temp close to the warmest since the 2nd of Feb (56.3F/13.5C). That's still a couple of degrees (F) below normal for the date, but it's certainly a huge improvement over our recent much colder than normal temps. The snow melt theme will continue in earnest today.
It still looks like we'll have a change in the weather pattern again starting tomorrow, as this high pressure ridge breaks down and gets replaced by a wobbling flow of upper-level disturbances. Rain chances are looking minimal for us, but there will likely be some periods of significant cloudiness on Wednesday, and occasional clouds on Thursday and Friday as well. Temperatures will slide downward a bit in response to these changes.
Our next chance of significant precipitation is in the forecast for Friday night through Saturday night, as a stronger system eases in from the west and some juicier moisture is drawn northward ahead of it. That will be our main thing to keep track of during the coming several days...
Our CURRENT FORECAST is available on the tab at the top of the page.
