Monday, April 9, 2012

A Bit of Polishing...

Good Afternoon!

Just a brief update, an error correction and a tweak or two in the forecast.

First, in the morning forecast, the only thing I said for Thursday was a "...nighttime low of 36."  That should have said "...daytime high near 56."  Apologies for the confusion.  The latest model runs appear to have bumped up Friday's temperatures a bit, so I will change that accordingly, to a daytime high near 60.  The NWS has cloudy skies and a chance of showers and thunderstorms in their forecast on Sunday, but I am not ready to back off of the mainly clear bit for Sunday just yet.  The models are debating the whole rain and cloud cover issue, even though the GFS and the Euro models both seem to like rain in here Saturday evening into Sunday.  The question is, how fast do we get out of the rain on Sunday?  We'll have to see another model run, possibly two, before we can answer that with any high degree of confidence.

Here's a look at the satellite image and the Doppler radar from Detroit as opposed to Grand Rapids.  You can see the loosely organized showers popping up over eastern Michigan as they depart the area a little better from that side of the state.  Conditions throughout the area are also on the radar image.


You can see pretty clearly where the colder air is advecting into the area, the clouds up in the northern half of Wisconsin are the telltale.


That's all for now, have a wonderful evening!  Blessings.


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