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Rainy Evening

TODAY'S HIGH: 77
TODAY'S LOW: 59

Some parts of the viewing area are getting showers and thunderstorms this evening. Click on LIVE TRIPLE ACTION DOPPLER to see where the action is NOW.

What is causing the rain? We have an uppler level cutoff low. I am sure you have heard Gary call them, "Cutoff low, weatherman's woe". Well they are also weatherWOMAN's woe ;) ... as they move very slowly because they are not being steered by the main flow aloft. Soooo will the rain be over by kickoff?? It looks like it WILL! Take a look at the maps below. This is vorticity aloft... which leads to rising air... thus we can see rain. The first is for this evening, showing the storm on top of us:

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Next, we take a look at Sunday morning. The storm is just to our North... still a chance of showers:

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And now on to Sunday afternoon. The storm should be east of us... bringing about dry conditions for the remainder of the day:

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The storm has kep temperatures down today, take a look at the high temp map below. We were in a cool pocket associated with the cutoff low:

But to our west, look at all that warm air building in! That will be moving in on us as the storm moves away. We can expect a few days in the lower and mid 80s before a stronger cold front drops temperatures by mid-week!

Jamie

Posted by at October 1, 2005 8:51 PM