Alan Crone's Weather Blog: Improving Weekend Weather

The storm system that brought the mist-drizzle-fog-rain-sleet-snow is now to our east!   The sun will make a gradual return today but cold air will remain with highs in the upper 30s north and lower 40s south.    Saturday morning temperatures will start in the lower 20s and should end in the mid-40s with sunny conditions.   Sunday stronger south winds at 15 to 25 mph will allow morning lows in the 30s to move into the mid and upper 50s for afternoon highs.   A front moves across the state Monday morning with a slight chance of showers or sprinkles but the majority of the area will remain dry.   A somewhat uneventful weather week should remain with moderating temperatures after an early week cool down.

Temperatures this morning are starting in the 20s with a north winds around 15 to 25 mph.   Gusty winds are likely to continue this morning before relaxing later tonight.  Wind chill values will stay in the 20s today but at least we’ll see some clouds moving out allowing for partly sunny conditions later today.    Our pattern will bring another upper level wave into the area late this weekend but the impact will remain minimal.   A surface low should develop across southeastern Kansas and migrate across northern OK Monday morning.   Gusty south winds are likely to develop Sunday with highs moving into the mid or upper 50s.   The surface low will move eastward out of the state Monday morning to midday.   This will drag another cold front across the state but the moisture is expected to remain limited and only a small chance for showers or sprinkles will remain in the forecast.  

We’ll stay chilly Tuesday with lows in the 20s and highs in the lower 40s as an upper level trough will not clear the region until Tuesday night.   The colder air aloft combined with north winds should keep us chilly Tuesday.   But moderating temperatures are likely Wednesday into Thursday with lows in the 30s and highs in the mid to upper 50s.    A weak wave may pass the area next Friday, but a stronger upper level system should near the state next weekend or early the following week.  

FYI:  The system that moved across the state yesterday was associated with the developing storm system that will bring powerful winter weather to the mid-Atlantic today, tonight, and Saturday.   If you have any travel plans in this region of the country, you are encouraged to delay those plans.   Airlines will be impacted greatly once the onset of heavier winter weather arrives and delays across the mid-Atlantic to the East coast will occur.   These delays will have “ripple” effects with air travel across the nation beginning today and possibly lasting through Sunday night or Monday.  

Thanks for reading the Friday morning weather discussion and blog.

Have a great day!

Alan Crone

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