Rain showers continue spreading eastward today as that cold frontal boundary starts knocking on our doorstep. NWS has issued a Flood Watch from norther Mississippi to north Ohio. Our area is under a Hazardous Weather Outlook for possible flooding issues. This may be upgraded to Flood Watch/Warning later tonight or Tuesday as that system presses eastward. We’ll keep mild temperatures today with highs in the upper 50s. But as that cold front crosses our area during the day Tuesday, we’ll see a steady decline in temperatures with lows falling into the upper 20s each night. After Tuesday, highs will barely make it into the mid 40s.
But the precip will remain in the form of rain until sometime Wednesday night/early Thursday. At this time, we’ll see a changeover to mainly snow. Although some mixed precip is a brief possibility Thursday, especially for eastern portions of our state, in the lee of the mountains. In any case, snowfall accumulations do not look impressive. Moisture associated with this system will be departing as that cold air really sinks in. So we’re still lookin’ at trace amounts of snow by Thursday.
High pressure will move build into our area to dry things out during the day on Thursday. But the cold air will stick around. By the weekend, a reinforcing blast of cold air will knock the bottom out of the temperatures with highs struggling to reach above freezing. However, we still do not have any long-lived cold air masses or impressive snowfall forecasts at the moment.
Have a great week!
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Today’s image shows the latest hazardous weather/warning areas. Altough we’re still in the clear, this may change. You can track local warnings by clicking on the NWS (National Weather Service) icon on the right hand side of this page!
