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Yesterday’s Weather
Man, was yesterday nice or what!? Before the clouds increased during the evening, we saw sunny skies and southwesterly flow, warming us to 50°F. It was a nice day to go for a run, or walk the dog, or whatever your favorite outdoor activity is!
Forecast Summary
Today: Mostly cloudy, with light rain/snow showers. Highs around 40°F. Overnight, look for mostly cloudy skies, with light snow early. Lows around 28°F.
- Wake up: 🌧/🌨 36°F
- Lunch hour: 🌧/🌨 39°F
- Evening time: 🌨 34°F
Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy early, with partly sunny skies developing afterwards. Highs around 43°F. Overnight, look for breezy conditions under mostly cloudy skies. Lows around 37°F.
- Bus stop: ⛅️/🌤 28°F
- Lunch hour: 🌤 40°F
- School is out: ⛅️ 43°F
- Evening time: ⛅️ 42°F
Tuesday: Much warmer, and partly sunny. Highs around 56°F. Overnight, look for partly cloudy skies, with lows around 36°F.
- Bus stop: ⛅️ 41°F
- Lunch hour: ⛅️/🌤 50°F
- School is out: ⛅️/🌤 56°F
- Evening time: ⛅️/🌤 53°F
Discussion
This forecast period is, surprisingly, not all that interesting.
The general synoptic set up features broad northwesterly flow across the eastern US, with multiple shortwave troughs propagating within that flow to create sensible weather conditions. That would be why we have see the weather we have this weekend.
There look to be a couple of shortwaves in this flow that impact us during this timeframe, but neither look to be very significant in terms of surface weather conditions. Today, a sharp shortwave trough looks to propagate southward into the lower Ohio Valley. This trough will have a region of divergence ahead of it, fostering the atmosphere for lift, especially across central and eastern KY.
In addition, it will bring a vorticity maximum, which is just a measure of the spin of air. This is one of the primary features that we look for when looking for lift in the atmosphere, and it definitely looks to be there this afternoon.
This will definitely create precipitation across the region, but the biggest question is what kind. Surface temperatures look to be too warm for it to really be all snow all day, especially here where precip looks lighter. We should see light rain/snow showers most of the day, until it becomes all snow this evening. Snow accumulation will be light. Dusting to 1″ is our range.
Clouds will have thinned by tomorrow morning, allowing for much of Monday to see partly sunny skies, an improvement over the cold and cloudy today. Temperatures should be cool, though, but at least it’ll be relatively sunny in the break we have between systems.
By tomorrow night, clouds and the breeze will be increasing as the next low pressure system propagates eastward to our north. This will have a pretty strong pressure gradient with it, which will cause winds to flow from the southwest, keeping it warmer overnight.
I don’t anticipate any precip from this, as much of its forcing will remain to the north. By Tuesday, the low will be to our northeast, but winds will still be a bit breezy from the southwest or west-southwest. Under partly sunny skies, look for temps to become warmer in the afternoon, maybe even to the mid 50s.
Today’s Key Points
- Light rain and snow showers today
- Snow accumulations will be light
- Nicer on Monday and Tuesday
- Breezy Monday night
- Warmer on Tuesday; highs hit the mid 50s
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!