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TGIF!
Good morning everyone! (or good afternoon or evening, depending on when you read this!)
After a very GRAY day yesterday... we are starting off with plenty of sunshine this Friday morning! Heading through the day, expect to see some fair weather cumulus clouds develop... but the sun will still be visible, too. As you travel East from the Stateline... expect the clouds to increase. Highs will be near 70 here in Kansas City, and a little clooer under the cloud cover in the East!
What is going on? Well, check out the BIG storm over the Great Lakes on the NAM 500mb initilization below:
It is just going to be a gray, gloomy day under that vertically-stacked, slow moving storm! You can see the extensive cloud cover it brings on this morning's satellite image:
Click to see the impressive satllite loop!
As that Low slips south over the weekend... it's far western edge of cloud cover will get closer to Kansas City. So we may see a few more clouds here in the Metro. It will also be slightly cooler over the weekend, with highs in the 60s. And since those counties East of the Metro will be closer to the storm... we can't rule out some spotty sprinkles there as energy rotates around the main storm.
Besides this storm, we are still expecting a pretty quiet period weather-wise! No big storms in the forecast, and temperatures will be cool through the middle part of next week, when we could see highs close to 80 by Wednesday!
Have a good TGIF!
Jamie
Posted by at May 12, 2006 7:50 AM
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Wouldn't it be cool to see if it could go warm core - One did once in 1996
The Great Lakes: A storm system that appeared similar to a hurricane formed in 1996 on Lake Huron. It formed an eye-like structure in its center, and it may have briefly been a tropical cyclone.[19]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane
SCOTT:
Very interesting! Thanks for the links!
Jamie
Posted by: Scott at May 12, 2006 9:50 AM
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Too bad the Lake waters are soo cold...looking at the phase map, it inched to warm core, but likely no SST to support growth.
http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cyclonephase/gfs/fcst/archive/06051206/19.html
Posted by: Scott at May 12, 2006 9:53 AM
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Team,
Is there anymore chances for severe weahter later on in the year. I had been hoping for some during those last storms but it seems like Oklahoma and Texas are the ones getting pounded by the bad weather.
JEFF:
The next 10-15 days look dry and mild... but after that it looks like it will warm up. We may see some more active weather then.
Jamie
Posted by: Jeff at May 12, 2006 1:28 PM
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Check out this loop! http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/centgrtlakes_loop.php
Scott,
Awesome, it is like an eye over Lake Michigan.
Gary
Posted by: Scott at May 12, 2006 3:45 PM
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Greetings:
YAWN, YAWN, YAWN
In 15 days we will have completed May - what a boring May and probably drier than normal, much drier I'm betting, if that happens.
YAWN, YAWN, YAWN - this dog's gonna go to sleep until next year. (Well, at least he feels like it)
Later,
Dog
Storm Dog,
15 days from now is the 27th. We have a lot of May left.
Gary
Posted by: StormDog at May 12, 2006 8:21 PM
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Hey scott, and weather team.. found a pic of that Great Lakes "Hurricane" in 1996....
http://www.personal.psu.edu/tjm128/
Mike Smith
MIKE:
Thanks for sharing!
Jamie
Posted by: Mike Smith at May 13, 2006 9:30 AM
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..ok my last link didnt work.. here you go...
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.personal.psu.edu/tjm128/hurhur.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://www.personal.psu.edu/tjm128/&h=585&w=644&sz=583&tbnid=TW6Z-gY0lG9FzM:&tbnh=122&tbnw=135&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhurricane%2Bhuron%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DHPIA,HPIA:2006-19,HPIA:en%26sa%3DN
Mike Smith
MIKE:
Thanks for sharing... again!
Jamie
Posted by: Mike Smith at May 13, 2006 9:31 AM
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