High pressure for the weekend and maybe Monday to.

So looking at the GFS models here, a strong ridge of high pressure will be with us and over our region for the weekend and possibly lasting into Monday. Should also see highs in the upper 60`s to low 70`s to maybe a few mid 70`s as 500mb heights look to be in the mid to upper 570`sdm with thicknesses in the mid 560`s. 850mb temps during time not looking any different from previous runs and still show right around +10c. For Monday, it appears the our ridge may strengthen just a bit, but still seeing highs in the 70`s, though it appears there is some westerly flow aloft which will keep us from getting to warm. Our ridge weakens/ moves east for Tuesday as weak trough moves through our region and actually it looks like the main but weak area of low pressure will be just over the WA/ CA border, but still close enough to give us clouds and possibly a few showers.

For the longer term, GFS shows maybe a return of some what strong ridging, but looking more or less flat ridging, however it looks dry and pleasant from about mid week through the weekend possibly as 500mb heights don`t really drop all that much and stay in the 570`s and thicknesses in the 550`s to low 560`s. But if looking at the 00zEURO, it shows generally some what flat ridging through most of the five day work week. On the other hand, GEM and MRF model both show through to still come through around Tue/Wed time frame with some weak ridging after that. So we`ll just have to see how it plays out for next week.