[Posted Aug 28, 2024]
School is starting back up! This year the first two school days are a really odd Thursday and Friday before a long weekend. Doesn’t make much sense, but I can still forecast the weather for it!
Currently, our little low that has been producing some cool temperatures and rainy conditions has just recently broke off from the main jet stream flow, making a cut-off low. Hay, that rhymed! This should mean we should transition to partly cloudy soon, because that is the usual condition northwest of a cut-off low, which is where we are right now. The thing is, by the time the weather can actually catch up to what it wants to be, the low is going to have moved off enough that we just clear straight to no clouds tonight.
On Thursday, a high pressure ridge that will develop tonight will start to bump up the jet stream around the Rockies. This pattern is actually a very common thing in El Niño, and it is indirectly caused by that little trouble-making low over the Gulf of Alaska making a return. The mini-ridge will actually warm the temperatures a few degrees above average, meaning the temperature might feel more early August-y, rather than late. Currently the high is looking like something near 23. For the wind on Thursday, it’ll flow off the Rockies and towards Hudson Bay from the high pressure ridge, as it usually likes to do. All this wind will actually make it be pretty breezy tomorrow, meaning the feels like temperature will be near average values. Finally, for the clouds, it’s looking sunny with some cirriforms here or there.
For Friday, It’s looking almost completely the same as Thursday, so, just like before, you can expect a high near 23, with somewhat breezy winds. The only difference is the clouds, where it’s looking like we’ll have higher cloud cover, since there might be a couple bits of scattered Cumulus and Altocumulus among the remaining cirriforms from Thursday. Just a note, the temperature does look more likely to land above 23 than below, but that’s still not for sure.
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