After several rainy and cloudy days in Mid Missouri, the sunshine has returned! This is due in part to an upper level ridge over the area. It is being squeezed in between two Low Pressure centers to the West and East of us. So what does that mean... it means that the sunshine won't be lasting too much longer. We will start to see the Low move into the area tomorrow. This will being to increase the cloud cover from the Southwest lifting to the Northeast for your Wednesday. This system will also bring us some heavy rainfall heading into the overnight hours and throughout Thursday.
Thus my real focus here shifts to the heavy rainfall. The Missouri River has crested in many areas if you take a look at the Hydrological predictions from the National weather Service ( http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=lsx&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1&toggles=10,7,8,2,9,15,6 ) but we still have moderate to minor flooding occurring.
We have seen a lot of precipitation this month already and in the recent past, with several flash flooding issues. As it stands now, we have seen 3.50" of precipitation. That is 0.80 " above average for this month. We will probably see more flash flooding issues heading into the latter half of the work week. At this point the Storm Predictions Center does not have us in any kind of risk for this to be severe.. we will just see heavy rainfall.
So enjoy the sunshine today and what we see of it tomorrow while it lasts. But the weekend is looking spectacular! More details to come later this week.
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