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Here at WxOrNotBG, we have begun to implement a new post every Sunday evening previewing the week ahead. In light of that, I am going to begin posting a review of the previous week each Saturday night, highlighting the major events that occurred, etc. So, with that being said, here is your *cue awesome music* WxOrNotBG Week in review for August 2nd through the 9th.
First of all, I wanna apologize for this (and the tweets of the week) being late this week. I was in North Carolina this past weekend, and was running all over the place doing stuff.
No matter. I had fun, and I will make this post even better because of it!
So, last week was fairly forgettable when it comes to weather weeks. It was hot some days, but not overly hot. The majority of the work week was characterized by rain and thunderstorms, especially beginning on Tuesday.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (even some on Friday) were fairly cloudy, stormy and awful weather days. The kinda days that you don’t tell your kids or grandkids about one day. You’ll tell ’em about the two winter storms we had this past year, and how we’d been in a snow and regular drought going into that 2 week timespan, and how those two weeks pulled us out (I might be the only one that tells my kids that story).
But this week? It was just boringly stupid across the state. We start on Sunday and Monday, and how fairly nice they were, especially across the western half of the state. Sunshine was dominant, and it lead to warmer temps across that portion of the state.
However, on Monday morning and into the afternoon, eastern portions of the state were hit by a line of storms that was traveling southeastward in association with a weak low pressure system. This produced some wind damage and hail reports; but overall, it wasn’t too significant of an event.
Then, you got into the Tuesday-Friday timeframe. This timeframe was just straight up baaad. Like as bad as the worst movie you’ve ever seen.
Maybe not that bad, but you get my point. It was cool and cloudy for the majority of it. Tuesday was just the beginning of that whole mess. A weak cold front dropped into the region, and basically set us up for the remainder of the week. What happened was this cold front decided to putter out over the region, leaving A) a stationary front, B) a spark for thunderstorms and C) a boundary for the Wed.-Fri. low to travel along.
So, on Tuesday, the stationary front began going to work. It fired up some nice thunderstorm activity across the region, but luckily these storms stayed below severe limit across the majority of the region.
They would thrive in a warm and unstable environment throughout the day, and just like most summertime thunderstorms, they died around sunset as the peak heat of the day went away. However, in the distance loomed a really crummy, slow moving low pressure system.
And beginning Wednesday around mid-morning, we saw clouds and showers/storms the majority of the day until about Saturday. This low was that slow moving. Its not all that uncommon to get cut-off lows in the fall; and while this wasn’t one, this was pretty dag on close.
It moved about 7 miles an hour (it felt like) and just dropped rain on not only our heads, but our souls, throughout the end of the week. It wasn’t even that heavy after Wednesday either. The heaviest rain fell across the western part of the state, and the biggest annoyance that affected the majority of us after that was constant moderate showers and clouds.
I guess if there is a positive out of this, its that it was pretty cool those few days. I mean highs didn’t even got out of the 70s for much of the state on Thursday and Friday. That should bring a tear of joy to most of your eyes.
And after that bologna moved out, we were left with fairly normal weather conditions across the region. Saturday ended up being nice!
Nationwide, it was really, really hot across much of the southern part of the country this past week. Excessive heat warnings have been in effect across that portion of the US for much of the past week. Big cities like Dallas, Memphis and Oklahoma City were hitting the 100s, with heat indicies approaching numbers much higher than that. LUCKILY, we didn’t have that.