Wednesday's Weather Thoughts

Our winning streak of beautiful weather continues and will continue through Friday before changes begin to occur during the holiday weekend.

A big ridge of high pressure centered over the Great Lakes will dominate our weather through Friday. This high will provide bright and sunny skies during the day and clear skies at night, with highs around the 90 degree mark, and into the 90’s in some areas, and lows in the 60’s but approaching 70 by the time we get to Friday night. It will be breezy Thursday and windy Friday as the interaction between a frontal system approaching from the northwest, and low pressure over the northern Plains, interacts with the Great Lakes high, and the difference in pressure produces gusty southerly winds, especially Friday when winds could gust past 40mph.

As a trough pushes eastward form the northwest, the front will approach Greater Nebraska during the day on Saturday as the Great Lakes high begins to release its grip. Isolated thunderstorms are possible especially during the late afternoon with highs once again near 90.

By Saturday night, remnant moisture from Hurricane Alex, which will make landfall in northern Mexico tonight, will flow northward into the Central Plains and interact with the front to produce more widespread and perhaps heavy thunderstorm activity that will continue into Independence Day on Sunday. In fact, the rain could be heavy enough to renew flooding concerns in some areas, so stay tuned to News 2 for the latest forecasts.

Hopefully the front and the moisture from Alex will be shunted to our east by Sunday night, and we can look forward better conditions on Monday with some sunshine but with the continued threat of isolated storms. It will also be humid through the weekend into early next week.

Mike