Monday, March 15, 2010

Monday Morning Update

GM all,

Hope you had a great weekend. The weather certainly wasn't the best... Oh well a chance to stay indoors and get some work done.

Looks like a quiet, uneventful week on the way for the Ohio Valley. A large scale trough will hold over the eastern 1/2 of the nation through Wednesday - St. Patrick's Day. A couple of short waves will be traveling through this trough with the brunt of the energy from both of these shorts remaining to our west and south. Little more than periods of clouds will result for us. This trough will keep H85 temps in the -2 to 0C range so March mixing schemes would suggest highs remaining in the low/mid 50s. Ridging finally builds in for Thursday and Friday. A couple of great days to wrap up the work week. Bright sunshine expected those two days and with H85 temps moderating to the +2 to +4C range, temperatures should recover well into the 60s both those days.

Next rain chance is expected to come Saturday / Saturday night time frame as a strong H5 jet max digs southeast across the central plains and carves out a fairly amplified trough across the Midwest and Ohio Valley for the weekend. Severe with this system ???? at this time - I don't think so as substantial instability looks meager with this system which is still dropping south of east until it gets just west of us - at which time it finally bottoms out and makes the turn to the east/northeast. We'll keep you posted...
Ohio River Update: The river is rising ! Here's the latest from NWS...


Have a great day all,
Jay

1 comment:

Stephanie Mckenna said...

We will have more floods in downtown Louisville, if thay do not fixe the flood gates that we have. If not down town Louisville will, not be there.