4/17 – Rob’s “Warming Trend” Morning Forecast

Fairly benign weather expected throughout this week as a closed upper-level low centered near the Great Lakes extends all the way south to Florida. It is steadily moving east while upper ridge is following behind it. The return flow with an area of high pressure to our south will increasingly warm temps. A clipper trough racing east across the northern 1/3 of the country mid/late week will send a dry front through the forecast area late Wednesday night into Thursday morning. This will knock temps down Thursday and Friday.

The next weather impact will be coming this weekend. Models are in good agreement showing an upper-low coming into the West Coast Thursday and tracking east to the southern plains by Saturday evening. The low looks to be tracking closer than normal to the area, right across Arkansas and northern MS/AL Sunday. This will bring a surface low with cold and warm fronts appended to it. Model do show some instability, we will have to see how model solutions progress but at this time, looks to be much more a docile event compared to this past weekend.