Alan Crone's Weather Blog: Another Warm Afternoon

<p>The warming trend will continue today with highs moving into the lower 60s. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

Thursday, January 14th 2016, 3:56 am



The warming trend will continue today with highs moving into the lower 60s.   But the first of several storm systems will move across the area later tonight bringing a slight chance for a few showers or storms across eastern OK between 7pm and 2am Friday.   Friday temperatures will drop back into the upper 40s and lower 50s but much colder air will arrive this weekend along with two distinct short-waves of energy across the state.   The main impact for eastern OK will be more cold air with lows in the 20s and highs in the 30s and 40s Sunday into Monday.   

Yesterday was awesome.   Probably one of the better weather days we’ve experienced in the last three weeks.   Today will be very nice but the south winds will be increasing speeds later today as a surface low develops to our west and northwest.   The winds will be from the south in the 10 to 15 mph range with a few gusts around 20 to 25 mph by the afternoon, but mostly sunny and warm conditions will prevail.  The daytime highs are expected in the lower to mid-60s before clouds will increase bringing a chance for a few showers or rumbles of thunder later tonight.   Our window for precipitation will begin around 7pm tonight and end near 2am in far eastern OK.    Friday morning should start in the upper 30s and lower 40s with daytime highs will move into the lower 50s.   Northwest winds will develop in the 15 to 25 mph with mostly to partly sunny conditions for most of the day.    Colder air will arrive late Friday night setting the stage for another chilly weekend.

The first short-wave (upper disturbance) will move from the northwest to southeast across Oklahoma Saturday morning through early afternoon with some snow likely across far west-central to southwestern OK.   A few locations across Pittsburg, Latimer, or LeFlore counties may experience some snow flurries as the tail end of this wave brushes far southeastern OK while exiting late Saturday evening.   This first wave should remain too far removed from eastern OK to impact the metro.

The 2nd wave will be nearing our area Sunday night into Monday with a slight chance for light snow showers or flurries.   The data two days ago was robust with snow, but this morning the model suggestions are less aggressive with the output and fairly dry.   We’ll only keep very low mentions in the forecast for Sunday night and Monday morning.   The temperatures Saturday through early next week will remain cold with lows in the 20s and highs in the 30s to mid 40s.

Again, our low chance for a few showers will remain for late tonight into pre-dawn Friday, mainly across far eastern OK and western Arkansas.   The weekend probabilities will remain extremely low for eastern OK.

Thanks for reading the Thursday morning weather discussion and blog.

Have a super great day!

Alan Crone

KOTV

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