4/3 – The Chief’s “Clearing Skies, Often Windy” Wednesday Morning Forecast

All precipitation has cleared the coast at this point as cloud coverage will continue through mid/late morning. High pressure to the NW will move in providing for sunshine this afternoon and through the rest of the workweek. A noticeable drop in high temperatures from yesterday as afternoon highs today only reach the low to mid 70s. We also see this temperature drop in overnight lows.

High pressure builds in at the surface later today and parks itself for a few days, keeping conditions rather quiet and skies sunny. Winds do remain a bit elevated through Thursday, around 15 mph gusting to 20-25 mph. The main concern through the short term is the potential for critical Fire Weather conditions, mainly Thursday, as Relative Humidity drops into the 20s and the winds remain elevated.

The long term period remains rather quiet to start as our surface high pressure holds through the rest of the work week and through most of the weekend as well. Our next system start to show itself late Sunday as a deep upper level trough/low slides across the desert SW and progresses eastward across the Southern Plains. Rain chances begin to increase early Monday, but remain pretty isolated until later into the week when another system approaches.