A WET WEEK AHEAD

OH Funsville...

The big red letters spelling out NEXT WEEK are sitting in a trough that is slated to transition our way sometime next week. Troughiness as it sometimes called or "being in a period of troughiness" conjures up images of gray skies, precipitation and stagnation. How grand! We’re likely not to see it quite that bleak, but the rain machine looks to continue.

There has been consistency with long-range models that after a series of short waves, moving through the jet, which is far to our north, a trough as pronounced in the present chart above, will dig into the central plains. This may be icing on the cake, in the form of additional rain to our area, sometime around the middle to late part of next week. The cake itself looks to be yet another cut-off feature that develops just to our west as early as this Sunday. Just as we’ve seen over the past two months little disturbances will spiral around this Low, kicking off round after round of predominantly afternoon showers and storms.

Cool (relatively speaking) and Showery… will these words continue to have validity? Quite possibly so!

Posted by Ted Zarras at 1:45 PM