2/27 – The Chief’s “Cloudy & Breezy” Tuesday Afternoon Forecast

Tonight, eyes begin to shift upstream as a cold front begins to move southeastward toward our region. Prior to the frontal passage, surface winds should begin to decrease just a bit. Timing Doesn’t look great for fog potential outside of potentially some “fuzzy stratus build down” with the wind field finally breaking down and enhanced moisture pooling will occur just after sunrise.

The front moves through the area late Wednesday or into Wednesday evening respectively. At this juncture, the instability with this system seems rather lackluster. There’s just enough to keep some precip chances mentioned across the region, but generally nothing more than 20s/slight at this point with much of the better lift occurring well north of our region over the TN and OH River Valleys.

The upper level regime will remain generally zonal to slightly more WSW across the region going into late week. This will help stall the aforementioned frontal boundary across the north and central Gulf of Mexico. Behind the front, drier and cooler temperatures should be realized and breezy conditions will also take shape as a surface high pressure moves swiftly eastward across the Ohio River Valley early Thursday morning and eventually off the Mid Atlantic Coast.

A potentially somewhat wetter pattern tries to develop across the region. The upper level flow pattern remains mostly unchanged leaving the residual front draped across the region going into the next weekend. With each slight ripple in the mid and upper levels, shower activity will be possible across the region, but again this looks periodic in nature and models remain more bullish in terms of the overall pattern.