3/23 – Rob’s 1st Weekend of Spring Forecast

High-pressure settled over the Deep South will move east through Saturday with onshore flow becoming better established over the central Gulf Coast region through the weekend. Upper ridging to the west will present a northwest flow regime into the Lower Mississippi Valley that will usher a frontal boundary into the mid-section of the Gulf States but stalling north of the forecast area.

The greater focus will likely remain north enough to preclude mention of rain through Sunday…but areas of PATCHY DENSE FOG will affect the area beginning Sunday morning. Temperatures will continue to warm as moisture flow from the GOM increases.

Frontal zone will retreat north as a warm front through the Plains States and middle Mississippi Valley as deep troughing takes place in the desert southwest. This is likely to maintain a corridor of persistent steady rainfall through middle of next week that would exacerbate ongoing high river flows for extended flooding impacts. This rain area may become a forecast challenge in the latter part of the forecast cycle but should return better chances of rainfall to the local area Thursday into Friday of next week.