Good afternoon to all.Today will be day of clearing from North to south as you can see by the 1230pm visible satellite imagery. Mostly clear North and central sound with clouds at the coast and still mostly cloudy in the south sound. So with clear skies tonight, should be another cold night with lows in the teens and 20`s. Any melting today will re-freeze over night.
On to some ridging.
After some ridging for this week that looks to last through about Fri and highs getting back to the upper 40`s to perhaps lower 50`s, it appears that a strong cold front will slide through here for LATE Fri night or Sat morning in which then a coolish trough will follow behind it with some showers at times with snow in the mountains. May see bit of a break on Sun with less in the way of showers, but still at least a few spotty showers around. Come Monday though, it appears a cold front may stall over us for the Mon through Tue and maybe even Wed period before it finally moves out of our region. Could be mild though as strong SWLY winds show up at the 850mb level. So perhaps we may see highs in the 50`s again.
Hello Andy. There has been variable cloud cover in Olympia all day. Now, there is fairly thick cloud cover with more clouds to our north and west. I realize that there isn't too much moisture in them but is it possible to get any snow out of them. Thanks.
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ReplyDeleteSorry to say, but very unlikely you`ll see snow out them. Air mass could be slightly more moist down there with the prescient clouds due to a stationary front, but most part, air mass is pretty dry. So probably just continued clouds at times which should hopefully clear out for ya.
http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/UA/West_coast.gif
Joseph.... yes, I was mentioning the winds just above the surface. 850mb is I believe considered the lowest level near the surface(I.E NCEP charts) as this is 5000ft up in the air with 700mb being at 10,000ft. So If I stand corrected here and from my knowledge, anything say above 10,000ft is mid-upper level part of the atmosphere with 500mb and up, being the upper layers.
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