Morning Showers Ending Before Another Friday Night System

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TULSA, Okla. - Showers hang around on Thursday morning.

Here are the details from News On 6 Meteorologist Alan Crone:

Morning showers will move east with partly to mostly cloudy and cool weather remaining for the afternoon. A fast system drops into the area Friday evening with some additional rain and thunder chances. More springlike weather returns early to the middle of next week.  

The main upper-level system responsible for the last two days of chilly yet beneficial rainfall will be exiting the area later on Thursday morning. Until then, additional scattered showers, including some pockets of moderate to heavy downpours, will remain possible for the early to midday hours before moving mostly east by midday and afternoon. Mostly cloudy skies will remain this morning, but a few breaks seem likely by afternoon with highs reaching the lower 60s. Northwest winds will continue from 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Friday starts in the 40s with afternoon highs in the upper 60s before the next upper-level wave dives down the spine of the Rockies into the state bringing another window for showers and storms. There continues to be some differences in the actual position of this system for later Friday evening into early Saturday morning that could still bring some sensible changes to the Saturday forecast. At this point, our pecip window will remain from late Friday into the first part of Saturday. Severe threats will once again be positioned mostly across far southern OK, along the Red River Valley into north central Texas.

Temperatures this weekend will remain sub-seasonal but will be making some progress. Saturday afternoon highs will reach the mid-60s with gusty north winds. Sunday morning starts in the lower 40s with highs near 70. We should finally see some abundance of sunshine on Sunday. 

Next week features the upper air flow initially from the northwest. This is always a tricky flow for spring. Small disturbances driving down the flow can produce some " surprise" showers and storms. We'll be looking closely early next week for any signals of a small chance for precip. At this point, some very low probabilities will be included both Monday and Tuesday accounting for the upper airflow. The overall pattern across the southern and central plains will not allow any major storm system early next week but will break-down by Wednesday with more springlike storm chances returning for the second half of the week.  

Thanks for reading the Thursday morning weather discussion and blog. 

Have a super great day!

Alan Crone

KOTV