WEATHER
Unseasonably warm weather is in store throughout the upcoming week, beginning with high temperatures in the low to mid 70s this afternoon:
Partly cloudy skies today will give way to increasing clouds tonight, and a good chance of rain by late Tuesday. The RPM model’s radar simulation shows the best chance of rain arriving in the evening and overnight:
Showers remain possible Wednesday and Thursday, but it’s just a slight chance — temperatures will still reach into the 70s each afternoon:
We’ll be close to record high temperatures today, Wednesday and Friday:
Warm and breezy Friday, before a cold front sweeps through Friday night. We could get some strong storms along that front Friday evening — the Storm Prediction Center has outlined a risk of severe weather just to our north:
It’s too soon to be overly concerned about it at this point — we’ll keep an eye on it.
Cooler over the weekend, but dry as well:
The next good chance of rain heads our way early next week.
LINKS
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- Among the 5500 pounds of equipment launched on a SpaceX rocket on Saturday: an instrument that will be used to study lightning patterns.
- NASA’s Juno probe is in the “wrong” orbit around Jupiter, but that’s not going to greatly impact it’s information-gathering mission.
- There’s more to fat than meets the eye.
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