Chilly days and cold nights ahead

Chilly days and cold nights look to with us over the next few days. And any wet pavement will likely be icy/slippery during the morning hours or perhaps longer in shaded areas. So you`ll want to add a little extra time to your morning commute.

This cold and upper level trough will be also be with us through at least Tue and part of Wed it appears as per tonights UW-WRFGFS and NCEP GFS models.

Highs tomorrow through Tue look to be in the mid-upper 30`s to lower 40`s with lows in the mid-upper 20`s. However, it appears that Tue and Wed mornings lows will be the coldest as they are showing lows in possibly the upper teens to mid 20`s, though up around B-Ham/ N.Interior, they could certainly see lows in the teens. But for us in the Puget sound region(central-south), it looks more like low-mid 20`s. Highs should have more of a rebound by Wed/Thur with highs mid-upper 40`s to maybe even 50 or so by weeks end as it appears a ridge of sorts builds toward our region.

As just mentioned, a ridge of high pressure may build toward us for later next week and giving us more seasonable highs in the 50`s. Models kinda bounce around the table on how long or how strong the ridge will be as 12zEURO shows it lasting through about Mon following week while GEM/Canadain/00zGFS are a bit weaker with the ridge. So at this point, we`ll see what happens, but from what is shown, I do think some form of ridging may be in our forecast.

Since this pertains to ''chilly days, cold nights'' the next few days, I may let this lastest update sit for a while and do another post say around Wed.