Friday, January 19, 2018

january's absence... (pm.19.jan.18)>

I'm curious to see just how high our temperatures might surge over the weekend, as an even warmer air mass builds across the northwestern quarter of India.  In addition to the extremely mild temps, we're talking about a dry atmosphere as well, so humidity levels should be generally in the 25-35% range here in our general area.

By Monday, a rather deep upper-level low pressure system will be on approach from the west-southwest.  However, at this point, it doesn't look like it is going to be able to tap into much moisture... and even when/if it does, most of that moisture will be shunted just to our south-southeast as the upper-level system pivots past us on Tuesday and Wednesday.  I'm keeping a slight risk of some random light shower action during that time frame, but significant precipitation is not looking good for us.  Let's see if that outlook changes.

A turn to cooler weather should accompany this system for a few days, even if we don't get the rain/snow we desperately need.