Temperatures were able to moderate yesterday with clearing skies and a more west to east zonal flow over the US yesterday. Changes are on the way once again however. At this hour, we note some showers and thunderstorms making their way out of Alabama into Georgia and Florida, a small unruly mob of thunderstorms in northeast Texas, and our next weather maker generating some snow and other things across the Plains and into Colorado and Wyoming. One deeper dive coming up!
SUMMARY: With winds turning more zonal and westerly, we got to see a brief bit of warming with the whole upper air wind setup flattening out from the ridge/trough that we were under for the last few days. The more zonal flow pushed the cold air back north for awhile. Don't get used to it though, more cold air returns over the next 24 hours as ridge/trough reorganizes itself. Our temperatures will settle in the upper 30's, then as the new week approaches, we get to and stay above 40 for a few days in a row for the first time in quite awhile. Things definitely start to feel more seasonable and spring-like, with the GFS forecast model suggesting 50's by next weekend. Won't that be nice?
PRECIPITATION: Primarily small chances of snow for the next few days, out best chance comes Monday as a storm tracks out of the Plains south of us, but close enough that we may pick up some snow from a sideswipe by that system. After that, hopefully we can start working toward eliminating the S word from the forecasts until next cold season. This is Michigan though, and you can expect some snow in April. We're looking pretty dry thereafter until the weekend, when we'll put in a mention of some scattered rain showers assuming that the highs near or above 50 verify.
Clouds in the area right now, I expect those to remain in place and slowly increase as we wrok through the balance of the day and into tomorrow.
Here's the forecast for Jackson and surrounding areas including Spring Arbor and Gilletts Lake;
This afternoon, mainly cloudy with maybe a peek of sun, not as mild as Friday, high 36. Wind NW 5-10 MPH.
Tonight, mainly cloudy skies, lows roll back to 23, wind NW 5-8 MPH.
Sunday, cloudy skies, perhaps a stray afternoon flurry, high 38, wind NW 5-10 MPH.
Sunday night, continued cloudy, chilly, lows near 23, wind N 7-14 MPH.
Monday, cloudy skies, the south zone of the blog will have a 50/50 shot at some light snow, accumulations up to 2" are possible. near the I-96 corridor and points north, flurries or light snow, accumulations up to 1". High 40. Winds turning NE 6-12 MPH.
Tuesday, continued cloudy, some lingering flurries possible, high 41.
There's a look at your forecast through Tuesday, I plan to have more details and your complete six day forecast later. Blessings.
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