Clouds & Cooler...

Good Morning!

We welcome a gray, damp day into the area, and I hate to say, but this is about the last day of seasonable readings in the area until early next week.  Let's get right into it and see what's running under the hood:

COLD FRONT IS BY, CHILLY CONDITIONS AHEAD:  Yesterday's showers and thunderstorms were out in advance of a strong trough and cold front moving this way from out west.  The big picture is a definite ridge/trough/ridge setup with the middle 60% of the US being influenced by the trough digging a ways south into the nation, pulling colder air down from Canada.  Jackson made it to 81 officially at the airport yesterday, comparing favorably with my forecast high of 80.  We'll give back about 25 degrees of daytime high over the next 24 hours, with the highs today topping out in the low to mid 60's, and a struggle to hold on to the upper 50's until late in the weekend.  Your nighttime lows will dip to near freezing over the next few nights!  Starting Sunday we begin to see more seasonable air filter in, with readings back into the 60's.

Here's the current temperatures as I write an early morning post for a change:

The readings say it all, but they don't tell you about some...

SHOWERS AND SUCH:  This slow moving boundary will bring us periods of showers and perhaps a thunderstorm or two, keeping the skies cloudy and conditions damp today.  The main body of storms is off to east and southeast, stretching from western New York, back south through PA, OH, WV, and eventually making it down into Dixie.  Those areas are in the standard "slight" risk for severe storms today.  Here's that map:

The next piece of the rain train is a strong shortwave located down around the ArkLaTex, organizing itself into a legitimate surface low and coming this way.  That arrives as a surface low tomorrow.  In front of it, as with most low pressure systems, clouds with rainy conditions.  When it gets here, it sits on top of us for awhile, so while there will be an occasional break from rain, clearing doesn't really take hold until tomorrow evening and into Friday.

A few clouds persist from Friday on, and I have to toss in the mention of the chance of a stray shower or two through at least Saturday.

BACK TO MAY-LIKE WEATHER NEXT WEEK:  Starting Sunday, we'll see some warmer conditions as the ridge currently sitting just on shore out on the west coast will have started a progression east, elbowing the colder air out of here and bringing back warmer readings, back into the mid and upper 60's.

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

I hope that you have a great Hump Day!