6/22 – The Chief’s “First Full day of Summer” Thursday Morning Forecast

A stationary front is overhead or just to the south of our area. With that being said activity may be ignited along the stationary front during the day with most of the strongest thunderstorms developing to our west and south. Most of the area should be rain free most of the day until late afternoon/evening hours. Tonight will see all activity decay and we will start it all over again Friday. Friday looks to be a very near repeat of what today will be since this stationary front will continue to linger in the area.

Saturday we will find the old NE disturbance getting forced out as a new disturbance begin to take its place. This new disturbance will provide a new cold front that will move SE from the foothills of the Rockies early Saturday. This will begin to slowly move this old disturbance back to the north and NE over the area and even out of our area by Saturday evening. This will cause rain chances to lower but not be alleviated. This new front will stall from the Red River Valley across southern Arkansas or just south of this area Tuesday morning. The eastern end of this front will continue to drape southward into central Miss/southern AL later in the day Tuesday. This may provide a new corridor for cluster of storms to travel from Tuesday through the remainder of the week.

We will have to get a lot closer to this time frame to see if we will get some impacts from any of this activity though. The main impact with all of this will be the heat once again. High temperatures next will flirt with the mid/upper 90s.