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Yesterday’s Weather
Yesterday was nice…but it was a bit too warm for my liking. After a week in the 60s, with cloudy skies, I though that I would be ready for warmer temps in the 80s this past week. But I wasn’t. I miss it. I miss the 60s and cloudy skies because it has been too sunny this week. Lets get the leaves changing and cool weather permanently established!
Forecast Summary
Today: Mostly sunny, with increasing clouds by evening. Highs around 85°F. Overnight, look for clouds to increase, with a chance of showers. Lows around 57°F.
- Bus stop: ☀️ 60°F
- Lunch hour: 🌤 80°F
- School is out: 🌤 85°F
- Evening time: ⛅️ 81°F
Tomorrow: Early clouds, with gradual clearing and cooler temps. Highs around 70°F. Overnight, look for mostly clear skies, with lows around 45°F.
- Wake up: ☁️ -> ☀️ 57°F
- Lunch hour: ☀️ 68°F
- Evening time:☀️ 67°F
Sunday: Mostly sunny and niiiiice. High 71°F. Overnight, look for mostly clear skies, with lows around 44°F.
- Wake up: ☀️ 46°F
- Lunch hour: ☀️ 70°F
- Evening time: ☀️ 68°F
Discussion
This is a fairly simple forecast period! Hooray!
Nope, not hooray. We need the rain, first of all, and secondly, this is getting boring. We had the cutoff low last weekend, which was very fun to forecast, as it provided a certain level of difficulty to the forecast process.
This weekend is fairly simple though. There is currently a trough over the central portion of the plains, and it is lifting northward into Canada. This has forced a surface low over northern Michigan and into southern portions of Canada, which created precip/thunderstorms across the central plains over the past day.
As time moves forward this weekend, this trough is anticipated to continue lifting to the north and east, and will pick up Hurricane Matthew at some point. This will force some enhance northwesterly flow across the region, and will deepen the trough just a bit.
This isn’t likely to force us into a big cool down like we saw last weekend, as the trough moving through isn’t deep, and is effectively glancing us. Additionally, the surface cold front looks fairly weak as well, indicating a modifying air mass as it moved southeastward towards us.
By Saturday afternoon, we should see northwesterly flow at the mid and lower levels behind the trough/surface cold front, moving cooler and drier air into the region.
What does all of this mean for your forecast? Well, it doesn’t mean a whole lot to you daytime forecasts. Because the timing of the cold front will be at night, some of you may not even seen many clouds associated with it.
Today, anticipate partly cloudy skies in the afternoon, with increasing clouds by this evening. Highs today should end up in the mid 80s. Overnight tonight, anticipate cloudy skies, with an isolated shower. Lows should be in the upper 50s. After clouds clear tomorrow morning, anticipate highs for both tomorrow and Sunday to end up in the lower 70s under sunny skies. Lows look to make a close shot a the upper 30s, but should only end up in the mid 40s.
Extended Outlook
The extended outlook is looking fairly active. Early next week is looking to be on the warm side, but a plethora of troughs looks to begin moving through the central, northern and eastern US in the long term, which shouldn’t allow us to be warm for very long.
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!