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Great Summer weather

The weather pattern will continue to be quite exciting the next two weeks as we go through August. At this time of year, the cold fronts are not strong enough to wipe out the low level moisture. In September and October the fronts will be stronger and the moisture would then be pushed down into the Gulf coast area. It would then need to be pulled back into the next storm, which certainly does happen. But, in August the moisture sits either just south of us, or it never really leaves. The next storm approaching at the end of the week will have copious amounts of moisture to work with and we should see some heavy rain in the area again. It is completely different than this past weekend's set up so we will see.

Below is the 500 mb forecast for Friday. This shows a rather strong summertime storm moving across the northern plains. A cold front will move through Friday and the chance of thunderstorms will come along with it. After this front goes by there could be a very wet set up for the end of the month. It is rather exciting.

I am working tonight, Sunday. Jamie has a few days off. Brett did the 5 PM and I am doing the 10 PM. Jeff Penner did a great job Saturday night tracking all of the rain.

Posted by at August 14, 2005 7:42 PM

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Posted by: frank ruisinger at August 21, 2005 8:31 PM