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High Temperatures today and Tuesday, hot in the Northeast, back to the S.Plains.
Highs days 3-7 shows The most intense Heat backing up.....to the S.Plains/Southwest but still very warm/hot in most places.
How do these temperatures compare to average at this time of year:
High temperature departures:
Low Temperature Departures:
From the GFS ensemble mean products. Temperature anomalies for Monday.
Temperature anomalies at the end of week 2.....most intense heat shifted west.
Last operational 6z GFS has a massive heat ridge for most of the country.
This should be very bullish for grains and natural gas..........but it's an outlier without much support from most other guidance.
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The last solution of the European model is BEARISH and much cooler after day 11. The map below is for July 14th.
CFS week 3 and 4. Heat southcentral and West.......drying out.
Precip below
NWS guidance for 8-14 day forecast for this afternoon(sneak peak at what it will show). Very Warm across the country but this tool shows much more precip than before...........from ridge riders???
Precip below:
https://weather.com/maps/currentusweather
Here is the latest radar image.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar_tab.php
Satellite picture.
Rains the past 24 hours. Not as much as recent days.
By pll - July 1, 2018, 9:54 p.m.
Nice .9 of rain here will take us through pollination easily even with heat. ECILL
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".
most importantly........forecast rains.
Rains the next 7 days. Less rain for IA(that doesn't need any)..............still alot of rain added vs what we thought for this period from past week.
Day 1:
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/fill_94qwbg.gif?1526306199054
Day 2:
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/fill_98qwbg.gif?1528293750112
Day 3:
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/fill_99qwbg.gif?1528293842764
Days 4-5:
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/95ep48iwbg_fill.gif?1526306162
Days 6-7:
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/97ep48iwbg_fill.gif?1526306162
Total accumulation
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/p168i.gif?1526397762
Areas with excessive rain potential.......not as much of a problem. Hit the map for full screen.
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/excess_rain.shtml
Current Day 1 Forecast Valid 15Z 06/11/18 - 12Z 06/12/18 |
Day 1 Threat Area in Text Format
Day 2 and Day 3 Forecasts |
Current Day 2 Forecast Valid 12Z 06/12/18 - 12Z 06/13/18 |
Day 2 Threat Area in Text Format
Current Day 3 Forecast |
Severe Storm Risk. Plains and Upper Midwest. Push your cursor on the map for full screen.
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/
12Z GFS indicates that the previous one with the widespread dome, was in fact an outlier.
This one, like most of the other guidance, backs up the heat ridge to farther west. It allows for ridge rider perturbations in the flow over the top of the ridge to travel southeast into the Midwest, which is an increase in the rains for the later periods vs the previous forecasts.
Some of the intense heat does hit the Cornbelt, especially southwestern parts ahead of these "waves" which, at the surface will probably be modest cool fronts.
So the recent guidance, besides taking the heat down a notch, is increasing the late period rains.
2 week total rains on the last 12z GFS:
Forecast Hour: 384
Image URL: http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/data/gfs/12/namer/precip_ptot/gfs_namer_384_precip_ptot.gif
Recent posts and market reaction would suggest everything is bearish and getting more bearish, including the weather.
However, that is NOT the case entirely. You can see below, with the individual Canadian model ensembles that a significant number of them are still pretty bullish with the dome. Enough of them so that that particular solution cannot be ruled out.
Should those solutions be on the right track, then the lows are right now and the guidance will soon be turning hotter and drier again as the dome shifts farther northeast.
This is the buying set up but only when(IF)the guidance shifts the 594 closed contour below, so that it covers parts of IA for more than a day.
372h GZ 500 forecast valid on Jul 18, 2018 00UTC
wow metmike does afc weather ever have a bullish scenario coming in with big heat....will try to post a couple maps...Dr crazy as we call him is really talking this up
I very much look forward to it mcfarm!
I showed this 06Z GFS solution below, earlier. If that solution would verify, we would have 100 degree temps from the Pacific to the Atlantic and everywhere in between for a week. Can't remember ever seeing a solution hotter than this for so much of the country in my 36 years as an operational meteorologist.
See the latest 18z solution below that one.
GFS 12 hours ago record heat across the entire country for mid July..........but its been an outlier solution so far.
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Latest 18z GFS below, not nearly as extreme with the week 2 heat.
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The last 12z European model has moved strongly towards the much hotter solution at the end of week 2:
Yeah, NG was down mainly on cooler week 1 vs Friday’s forecasts. It didn’t matter much that late week 2 was warmer on model consensus vs Fri with the significant cooling changes to the high confidence week 1 outweighing in both magnitude and confidence today.
Extreme weather potential days 3-7. Excessive heat threat is now targeting much farther west. No many people live in MT/ID to use air conditioning(which requires electricity generated from burning natural gas) and not much corn/soybeans grown there either.
Bring the intense heat much farther east and it will be bullish!