Andrei_WX's Blog

A large area of high pressure is currently in place and dominant across much of the midwest. Sinking air motion and northwesterly winds has helped to give us a much needed break from storms for at least the next couple of days. Temperatures for today will remain slightly below normal for this time of year. Dewpoints are currently in the lower to mid 50s. Winds are NNE so temperatures lakefront will be cooler than the rest of the area by 5-10 degrees. Lower 70s along the lake and mid to upper 70s elsewhere. Our next chance for seeing rain will come Friday and Saturday as the atmosphere will become quite unstabe and a  low pressure system currently over New England is expected to retrograde westward. The storms that do form aren't expected to be severe as there upper level support and wind shear will not be strong. For next week, we will gradually climb to normal and even slightly above norm by mid week as we get on the back side of high pressure.