Twin States Weather Blog

Saturday Evening Post

Saturday Evening Post.. that's a newspaper, right?

* A big thanks to those who passed along happy graduation wishes, and a big thanks for Josh Johnson for covering last weekend while I graduated. Poor guy had to work Mother's Day as well!

* So exciting to hear from our chasers in the Great Plains. They will definitely have an interesting story to tell, and I will look forward to hearing more from them. Thank you guys so much for all that you do!!

* Our weather around here is interesting this evening. A cold front is setting off showers and storms around the area, and a few of these were severe earlier today. This is from the NWS Jackson Discussion, updated at 9:27 PM:

RATHER ACTIVE EVENING WITH A FEW MARGINALLY SEVERE TSRA INCLUDING
SOME GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL...SOME WIND DAMAGE CLOSE TO ITTA BENA...AND
AN INCREDIBLE NEAR 7.5" OF RADAR-INDICATED RAINFALL ON THE CHOCTAW/
WINSTON COUNTY LINE. BACK EDGE OF RAIN SHIELD MOVING E AT 30KTS NOW
AND SHOULD CONTINUE PROGRESSING GENERALLY E OF THE NATCHEZ TRACE
PARKWAY CORRIDOR BY MIDNIGHT. TREND HAS BEEN FOR WEAKENING STORMS
SINCE SUNSET BUT STILL MAY SEE SOME LOCAL DOWNPOURS UP TO ONE INCH.

As the sun has gone down this evening, these storms started to fall apart, and I think we have seen the worst of it tonight. Any remaining storms could have some dangerous lightning as well as some gusty winds.

* We needed the rainfall this evening. As of this post, we still have no measurable rain out at Key Field, so our monthly total is just 0.02 inches. This is approaching 3 inches below normal. If we see below normal rainfall during the months of May and June, there will be less soil moisture when the hottest part of summer rolls around. The sun will have to do less work to evaporate this soil moisture, so most of its work can go into heating the ground, which in turn heats the air. If other factors fall into place, it could mean a hot summer! We will keep an eye on it.

* Looks like nice and cool weather for first part of the week. Humidity values will remain low through the first part of the week with highs in the upper 70s to near 80. We should start a warm-up by the middle of the week and could be talking about temperatures near 90 by next weekend. Looks like our next shot at some rain may come Thursday or Friday in the form of a glancing blow a cold front will deal us. Still a good bit of disagreement about that in the models.

* All in all, looks like a beautiful end to the weekend and a beautiful start to the work week. With kids getting out of school, I'm sure many have a case of summer-fever!

posted by Anonymous @ 10:30 PM