2009.07.02
Much the same into the foreseeable future
Looking at Wednesday's 8-to-14-day temperature forecast map from the Climate Prediction Center, it looks a lot like we've seen lately, with hot weather building in the south-central states and our region on the rim of that. Perhaps the heat dome is expanding a little our way by this period. Until then, looks like much of the same ... warm but not hot, mostly dry except for whatever passing disturbances and fronts can squeeze out of limited moisture. Wednesday showed that even with some favorable upper-level wind dynamics, decent instability and at least some lift, the downsloping winds and lack of moisture will be hard to overcome for widespread thunderstorm activity in our region, until we can get more of a southerly or southeasterly flow to bump up the moisture and add more upslope-terrain component to the mix.
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