5/6 – Trey Tonnessen’s “Muggy Afternoon” Monday Evening Forecast

Meteorologist Trey Tonnessen

The region will continue to feel the influence of a shortwave ridge axis extending in a southwest to northeast orientation across the Gulf South through the middle of the week. Ample subsidence in the mid and upper levels beneath this ridge will continue to produce a strong mid- level capping inversion, and this will effectively limit any convective potential tomorrow and Wednesday. At most, an isolated shower may develop over portions of Southern Mississippi, but deep convection and thunderstorm activity will be hard pressed to occur tomorrow. By Wednesday, the strength of the ridging aloft will be so substantial that no convective activity is expected. Skies will start off mostly cloudy to overcast as another inversion forms around daybreak both tomorrow morning and Wednesday morning, but warming temperatures into the upper 80s and lower 90s will lead to skies turning partly cloudy by the late morning hours.

As always: A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. Be nice to each other.

-Meteorologist Trey Tonnessen