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The latest rain forecasts for the next week are below. Advertised pattern change is here. Upcoming week will feature, widespread dry weather for the Cornbelt.
Day 1 below:
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Day 2 below:
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Day 3 below:
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Days 4-5 below:
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Days 6-7 below:
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7 Day Total precipitation below:
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Excessive Rain threat
TX and points just east/northeast.
Day 1 Threat Area in Text Format
Current Day 2 Forecast |
Day 3 forecast below
Here are the latest hazards across the country. The dark purple is a freeze warning. The bright purple is a hard freeze warning. The light/bright blue is a freeze watch, darker/medium blue is a frost advisory.
Green is a flash flood watch. Red is a flash flood warning.
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/ Go to "hazards"
High Temperatures today and Wednesday.
Temperatures continue over 30 deg. F cooler in many places compared to last week!!! Very warm in the far Southeast.
Highs for days 3-7:
The very chilly air will feature temperatures remaining 30+ degrees colder than the first 10 day of October............but the coldest air will be aimed farther east, towards the Midwest and especially the Northeast(where lots of people live and need heating) vs before, when the cold was aimed at the N.Plains.
How do these days 3-7 temperatures compare to average at this time of year?
Magnitude of cold anomalies shrinks compared to before and location shifts east.
Low Temperature Departures:
Surface features for the same 3-7 day period:
Chilly Canadian high pressure in charge. Reinforcing cold fronts this week with slight moderation in between. Mostly dry weather as the atmosphere will be dried out. Cold is directed farther east compared to last week.
Current Dew Points
Extraordinarily dry air in the Plains to Midwest! First freezes and frosts of the season happening.
Latest radar loop.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar_tab.php
Rains the past 24 hours
You can go to this link to see rain totals from recent time periods:
https://water.weather.gov/precip/
Go to precipitation, then scroll down to pick a time frame. Hit states to get the borders to see locations better. Under products, you can hit "observed" or "Percent of normal"
The rains below probably did some damage:
6-day rainfall totals through 7 AM CDT on October 10, centered on the Kansas City area An area that could not buy a rain all summer gets 6-12" in a six-day time frame...in October
Soil moisture anomaly:
Much too wet in a large area. Drying has commenced in all of the Midwest!!!
Rains compared to average for the last 7, 14, 30 and 60 days.
Usually not updated for previous day until late the next day.
Note how incredibly wet it's been over the past 60 days over eastern 2/3rds of the country!
https://www.atmos.illinois.edu/~snodgrss/Ag_Wx.html
Temperature Anomalies from GFS ensembles(fairly reliable product) going out 2 weeks. These maps show the Northern Hemisphere. The map of the US is front center. Look for the state borders in white.
Today: The cold is here for awhile!.
Very warm squeezed into the far southeast.
In 5+ days:
Cold escorted out stage east, moderation ahead of the next cold front. Warm West!
In 10+ days: Magnitude of anomalies is not that great. Warm west, chilly eastward.
Day 15: Upper level ridge West with warm air. Upper level trough with chilly air downstream/Midwest/East.
dude........
I feel like a tossed salad
The low skill, longer range CFS model for weeks 3-4.
Strong Upper level ridge in Alaska/NW Canada/West Coast........... upper level trough downstream and very chilly temperatures for the eastern 1/2 of the USA in week 3. But this shifts east, along with warming.
Dry for harvest.
Heating degree days(from cold weather) have replaced cooling degree days(from hot weather) at this time of year.
Check in tomorrow to read something different............."low skill" (-:
Precip below: