Cold air and a Fall-like weekend

(Map courtesy of Accuweather)

The coldest air so far this season is going to drop into the region for the weekend.  Cold front number one will cross over Thursday evening. A second cold front will push through on Friday evening and after daytime highs in the mid 60s on Thursday and in the upper 50s for Friday, we will see highs only around 50 on Saturday.  Combine that with a stiff NW wind and lake effect rain showers and it's going to be a rather cold and damp couple of days.
Friday night football is going to be what I call "dog nose" weather...cold and wet so make sure you bundle up if you are going out.

Not much going on

There's not been a whole lot of exciting weather going on the past few weeks.  Aside from a lot of rain, with more to come, it's been a rather uneventful time. No complaints here.  But, now that fall has officially arrived, I suspect we can start to look for Mother Nature to throw us some radical mood swings. I don't see anything bizarre in the next few weeks, just some roller coaster temperatures from the 70s to the 60s. Typical fall stuff. When the winter storms start forming, that's when we'll have fun!

Is that the sun I see?

Wow!  Monday morning and the sun is shining!  It's been a while since we have seen clear skies with sunshine. Finally the remnants of that upper level storm from last week have moved away.  That's going to allow us to have a couple of nice days before colder air and clouds move in midweek.

Temperatures today (Monday) and tomorrow will be around 80. That's just a tad above the normal daytime high of 75. But, don't get too excited.  Two cold fronts will cross the area this week, one late Tuesday and another on Wednesday, knocking daytime highs back into the 60s. In fact, we could see overnight lows dipping into the 40-45 degree range on Thursday and Friday mornings.  Ooooo!  The chill of Fall.

Labor Day looks cool and damp; tropical rain later?

As I mentioned earlier, Labor Day was going to be cool. It looks like it's going to be even cooler than first thought. The daytime high temperature will top out just below 70. And, the rest of the week will see highs of 70-75. I'm ready for that after the 90s on Friday and Saturday. Didn't we already do like twenty days of that in July? Oye! Later in the week, we may also get some rain from Tropical Storm Lee. At this time that storm is meandering off the Gulf coast. It should move inland over the holiday weekend and then head northeast. Exactly where is will go is still uncertain, but several of the long range forecast models have the storm center heading heading up the Ohio valley mid to late week. If that happens, we will at least have lots of clouds and depending on the track some significant rain, too. More on that later. Meanwhile, enjoy your holiday and dodge the showers when you can.