March Looks To Leave In Lamb-Like Fashion...

Good Morning!

Clear skies as we head into lunchtime on this hump day.  Snow has moved out of the area, with some clouds here and there to break up the blue sky.  Let's take a look and see what we have going on...

A GOOD DOSE OF SUNSHINE AND COLD:  That's what we have for the next day or so here in the area, but you can rest assured that we will have warming temperatures paying us a visit here as soon as tomorrow evening.  Even tonight shouldn't be quite as cold as the last couple of nights...

This surface temperature map shows the ridge/trough that we have seen all winter long.  If you look out to the southwest of us, there's a couple of small ridges with some 40's in them.  That's the air I expect to work into the area over the next two days, pushing readings into the 40's.

WARMING FOR NEXT WEEK:  If everything plays out as advertised, we'll finally get reasonably close to seasonal temperatures next week.  Average high in the area is around 51 degrees, and the computer forecast models seem to be happy with a high temperature spread between 43 and 56 over the next week.  We'll have to tweak and adjust those numbers as we go along, but it will be nice to not have to talk about daytime readings near or below freezing for the next several days!

SOME SHOWERS AND STORMS?:  For the first time this year I have to talk about some showers and storms in the forecast.  I'm thinking mostly showers as the upper air setup isn't all that favorable for thunder, but you never know.  It is spring in the Midwest.  There's not a lot of energy available for storms on Thursday, so I'm going to mention scattered showers.  There will be the chance of a lonely storm though, so be aware.

After the showers and such Thursday night into Friday, once we get those out of the way, we go to variably cloudy with some chances of showers or even some flurries at night, as temperatures will drop close enough to freezing at that point to support flakes.

Here's the forecast for Jackson and surrounding areas including Summit Township and Rives Junction:

And here's a look at the extended forecast - so far all signs indicate we get warmer and more or less stay there for the time being!

I hope you have a wonderful day!  Blessings.