3/22 – The Chief’s “Scattered T-Storms/Rain” Friday Morning Forecast

A system to the west with a warm front to the SW will continue to move E/NE and into the area this morning, crossing the local area this afternoon and tonight, and moving off the South Carolina coast by Saturday evening. Moisture values aren’t particularly remarkable across the area. Recent gusts have been around 40 mph, and would expect that potential to continue this morning as storms move eastward across the area. Most of the strong convection should be east of the area by mid-afternoon, but we probably will hold onto some isolated showers as late as 8 or 9 pm. Overall, Saturday looks to be dry, but it may take a pretty good portion of the day to get rid of the cloud cover with the disturbance in close proximity.

With the disturbance moving off the South Carolina coast Saturday evening, high pressure will move across the area for the remainder of the weekend. A large trough moving out of the Rockies Sunday night into Monday will develop strong low pressure over the central Plains States. That low will move northeast to Lake Superior by Tuesday night, then into Ontario. Another line of showers and thunderstorms will move across the area late Monday night into Tuesday morning. We’ll need to keep an eye on the severe potential with this system, even though it looks like the better threat will be to the north. Once the frontal boundary gets east of us, the atmosphere dries out later in the day.