Category: forecast discussion
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We’ve posted daily blogs since last Friday on the chance of winter weather in the Mid-South. Today’s post provides the latest information based on the morning computer model runs. Christmas Day Christmas Day will be wet – very wet – especially after Christmas lunch. Rain moves in by noon or so with temps in the…
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Today, computer models are giving us a little more to work with regarding the potential for snow on Christmas Day that we have been talking about since Friday. Unfortunately, the news is not all good for snow-lovers, but all hope is not lost! If you have followed us for long, you know we don’t hype…
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Snow is really cool in the Mid-South, especially since we don’t see it much (it’s been over 380 days since we last got “measurable snowfall.”) It’s even more fun when it falls on Christmas Day, as a White Christmas is even more rare. Yesterday we began discussing a Christmas Day storm system that has the…
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As promised, the Thursday weather system brought a great deal of wind to the area, including some sporadic damage, but the storms themselves were generally more bark than bite and passed through the metro quickly in the 4am hour Thursday. The cold air behind the departing system set us up for a chilly day for…
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This time last week, we were talking about an unusually warm December weekend and the potential for thunderstorms early in the work week. It’s deja vu all over again! While one very warm weekend in December is not unusual, two in a row is somewhat rare. However, the way this weekend is ending we’ll not…
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The last week in November has featured a warming trend that is peaking on this first weekend in December. Though winter doesn’t officially begin until December 21, “meteorological winter” (defined by the weather community as December-February) is starting off on a beautiful note with highs reaching 70+ for the next few days! The cause for…
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It’s not unusual to see major weather systems affect some portion of the country during Thanksgiving week, creating travel nightmares. However, recent tranquil weather appears to continue it’s grip on most parts of the nation, save the Pacific Northwest. In fact, not only will there not be much precipitation to contend with for the turkey…
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High pressure currently centered over the Great Lakes is dominating the weather for the central and eastern U.S., including the Mid-South. The area of high pressure is bringing cool and rain free conditions to the metro with temperatures ranging from highs in the low and mid 60s to lows in the upper 30s and low…
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A beautiful weekend in the metro will turn stormy, then cold, by early next week. Currently we are experiencing above average temperatures with highs expected in the mid 70s both Saturday and Sunday. Overnight lows will only fall to the mid and upper 50s thanks to a southerly wind that will keep temperatures mild. A…
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Today’s showery weather in the Mid-South is the result of an impulse in the mid-levels of the atmosphere that is dropping southeast into the region from Missouri. Over the next 72 hours, this impulse will move off the Mid-Atlantic coastline, strengthen, phase with a trailing impulse of energy, and explode into a Nor’Easter that will…
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At mid-day Thursday, a cold front that promises significantly cooler weather was moving towards the Mid-South from the Plains. Ahead of the front, temperatures in the 80s will be widespread this afternoon throughout the lower Mississippi Valley into the southeastern part of the country. Meanwhile behind the front, temperatures behind the front fall off sharply…
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Currently the metro is under the influence of a large area of high pressure centered over the southeast U.S. The area of high pressure will not move much between now and Thursday meaning a continuation of above average temperatures for the metro. Highs each day will be in the low 80s with morning lows in…
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UPDATED 3:15pm (all updates in red): As discussed yesterday afternoon, the Mid-South has been placed under an elevated severe weather risk for late this afternoon through the evening hours. Model data continues to support this scenario and the timing has not changed from yesterday afternoon as further data has remained very consistent. Below are the late morning…
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A couple of very nice fall days have graced the Mid-South, but a strong cold front will move through the region on Wednesday evening, bringing a chance for severe weather. Fortunately, this system is progressive – meaning it will move through rather quickly. The Storm Prediction Center has placed the Mid-South in a Slight Risk…
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A strong mid-October cold front of Pacific origin will move through the Mid-South Sunday, but will it bring severe weather? The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has offered it’s opinion, now here’s ours in a quick “Saturday Evening Post.” Thank you! First, let me begin by offering a sincere thank you to MWN interns Patrick and…
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All week, we’ve been talking on our social feeds about what we have called the “Big Kahuna” cold front that is due in tonight and how it’s going to have a drastic affect on our weather. It’s time to provide some more detail, especially with regard to tonight and Saturday, as there are plenty of…
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A brief shot of summer has returned to the Memphis metro thanks to an area of high pressure located to our east. The southerly winds to the west of this area of high pressure pushed a warm front through the metro earlier this week bringing warm and humid conditions from the Gulf Coast up into…
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For the first time in several months, the Mid-South is seeing steady rainfall across the entire area thanks to a stationary front that has been stretched just to the south of the metro. Moisture continues to ride over this boundary, pulled north by an upper-level low over Louisiana, producing widespread light rainfall across the area.…
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Finally! It seems like more comfortable weather has made an appearance this week in the Mid-South following another summer that seemed like it would never end. The passage of Isaac over Arkansas seemed to be the “event” that signaled the end of a hot, dry summer and more temperate conditions, lower humidity, and more frequent…
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After suffering through a seemingly-unending summer, Mid-Southerners should be licking their chops over a gorgeous fall-like forecast that begins this weekend and extends into next week. The abrupt weather change is due to the first true Canadian front of the year pushing through the region. As one might expect with temperatures in the mid 90s…
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