Okay.. so who else is sick of this cool, cloudy, rainy weather? Good news for all of us who are. This weekend will be sunny and hot! We will go from one extreme to the next. I wish we were able to actually have spring time weather where its in the 70s with sunshine for a while. Not the case in Missouri. Overnight Thursday into early Friday we will continue to see rain showers stick around. The low level jet continues to stream in warm, gulf moisture. Once the Low Pressure clears the area, it will begin to take the cloud cover with it.
Look for the clouds to decrease into your Friday afternoon. This brings back the sunshine just in time for the weekend. It seems like it has been a while since we have had a pleasant weekend. We will see a warm front lift over the Midwest sending us plenty of warm air advection. The Southerly winds in addition to the sunshine will heat things up into the middle and upper 80s, and lower 90s for Saturday, Sunday and Monday. This will probably feel rather oppressive compared to the cooler temperatures we have been seeing.
You can go to http://weather.unisys.com/gfsx/12h/gfsx_4panel_12h.html to look at what I am using to forecast this hot weekend weather. There are four panels for this model. The time frame goes out 10 days. The upper left hand corner is the one that I will focus on. This deals with temperature. If you move the time frame to three days out, you will notice the warm colors, oranges and reds, that are moving into the Midwest. You may also notice that there is a Low Pressure system in the center of the Midwestern states. This is where we are seeing the warm Southerly flow moving in. We find our selves in the warm sector of the system.
Make sure you have the shorts and t-shirts ready to go for this weekend. You may even want to bust out the sunscreen if you will be outside for ball games, yard work, ect. We will take a closer look coming up this weekend.
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