4/18 – Rob’s Warmer/Humid Wednesday Afternoon Forecast

No significant weather is expected throughout this week. A deep closed upper level low centered north of Maine is steadily moving east while upper ridge is following behind it. This increasing height regime will bring the return of warmer weather to the area. A clipper trough racing east across the central plains today will send a dry front through the forecast area late tonight through sunrise tomorrow. The post frontal airmass will knock temps down a good 10 degrees Thursday and Friday.

The next weather impact comes 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. This will bring a surface low dragging a cold front through the area. Model soundings do show quite a bit of shear and some instability, but we will have to see how model solutions progress. At this time the system looks to be much more docile compared to this past weekend.