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Forecast Discussion:
The weather is so nice, I packed up the family and went camping (yes, I may have to winterize again, but it is worth it). Sorry I didn't get this post up at 1am as usual!
I'm working on a big update for the Monday/Tuesday storm for this evening, so I'll keep it focused on the nice weather today.
Figure 1 shows high pressure driving by at the surface. There is a stately procession of fronts and lows out west that will change things around here in another day. Figure 2 is the upper air map. The large features are big troughs on both US coasts and a big ridge in the center. A neat feature is the smaller (shortwave) trough now over Kansas that gave us our (surprise!) bit of rain yesterday. That created a 'shortwave' ridge over us today with winds will be calmer and temperatures still about 20F above normal.
More tonight!
