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Yesterday’s Weather

Ahh, yesterday continued the streak of very warm and obnoxiously boring weather. Highs were, again, way above average, but I guess that made for a nice Halloween! Other than that, I really just want the weather to cool off and get a bit more active.

Yesterday's climate report. h/t NWS Louisville — Yesterday’s climate report. h/t NWS Louisville

Forecast Summary

Today: Partly to mostly sunny, with highs around 88°F. Overnight, look for partly cloudy skies, with lows falling to around 59°F.

Bus stop: 🌤 61°F
Lunch hour: 🌤 84°F
School is out: 🌤 88°F
Evening time: 🌤 86°F

Tomorrow: Partly cloudy, with increasing clouds by evening time. Highs around 83°F. Overnight, look for mostly cloudy skies, with lows around 61°F.

Bus stop: 🌤 60°F
Lunch hour: 🌤/⛅️ 79°F
School is out: ⛅️ 83°F
Evening time: 🌥 78°F

Thursday: Cloudy, with rain showers likely. Highs hit 71°F ⬇️. Overnight, look for clearing skies, and lows around 40°F.

Bus stop: ☁️/🌧 63°F
Lunch hour: 🌧 71°F ⬇️
School is out: 🌧/☁️ 65°F
Evening time: ☁️/⛅️ 60°F

Discussion

Wait…you’re telling me that there is actually an interesting forecast to work with here!?

I’m not gonna get to ahead of myself, but this is as interesting a forecast as I have had in what feels like a million years. It has been so warm and boring recently, and that pattern looks to continue through at least today.

A surface low pressure system is forecast to move to our north and east as the day progresses onward. This lows to drag a weak front to its southwest, and this will interact with the stronger high to our southeast. This will create a tighter pressure gradient, and will force out winds to flow from the southwest.

Southwesterly flow is evident from the hi-res NAM. h/t pivotalweather.com

This will aid greatly in warming out temps up this afternoon. I have a high of 88°F, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see an 89°F or higher value. If we hit 88°F, then we will tie the highest temperature recorded in November.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that we don’t hit 88°F because it is (let me remind all of you again) NOVEMBER, and I am so ready to not be forecast temperatures in the 80s.

This is how the weather recently has made me feel. h/t giphy.com

The pattern looks to begin to evolve into an active one as we head into Wednesday and Thursday, with Thursday being where the real stuff begins to go down. Model guidance shows a fairly deep trough propagating into southeastern Canada by Wednesday afternoon and evening.

The torugh positioning on Wednesday evening, and the motion it is expected to take is the black arrow. h/t pivotalweather.com

The evolution of this trough after this is really interesting, but I’ll get to that in a second. Wednesday looks fairly bland, as I think there will be a mixture of sun and clouds, with temps a bit cooler than they were today, but not by much.

Clouds will increase by Wednesday evening with the approaching trough, and adjacent surface low. The trough looks to begin to sharply dig towards our region through the end of the forecast period, forcing a fairly strong cold front to pass through the region during the early afternoon of Thursday.

The cold front is depicted by the hi-res NAM to move through between mid-morning and early afternoon. h/t pivotalweather.com

This should knock temps down through the day on Thursday, as rain chances remain most of the day until the cold front kicks through.

Today’s Key Points

Record Temps could be reached today
Upper 80s for highs this afternoon
Bit cooler and cloudier Wednesday
Rain and cool down on Thursday
Friday & Saturday look cool and nice

Thats all I have for ya! Thanks for checking into WxOrNotBG this morning, and be sure to follow @WxOrNotBG and @WKUweather on Twitter and like Landon Hampton on Facebook for the latest Bowling Green Weather information. Have a great day folks!