Monday, May 25, 2009

5/25 - 11:30am - Memorial Day

Cooking out today? Rain and thunderstorms shouldn't be too much of a problem because they're widely scattered and will continue to be like that throughout the day. Be aware that if you get under a thunderstorm this afternoon there could be some heavy rain. We should top out around 80 degrees this afternoon, but that could jump higher if we see some sun like yesterday. Tomorrow's and Wednesday's forecasts are about the same as today's, so we'll end up with a total of four days in a row with scattered storms and warm weather.

The rain should be out of here by Thursday as this low exits to our northeast and we'll be left with sunny skies and highs near 80.

Less than two weeks until my storm chasing trip! The weather has been terrible for storm chasing over the past few weeks and it doesn't look like this summer-like pattern will let up for at least another week or two. With that said, the jet stream looks like it might come south out of it's hiding place in Canada during the first or second week of June according to the long-range GFS. Let's hope so, because that would fire up the severe weather machine in the Plains!

12 days until storm chasing begins!

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