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With numerous thunderstorms expected today, temperatures should be kept down with highs only around the 90-degree mark. But the humidity will stay high, too, so it is still going to feel hot.
Showers and thunderstorms are expected to be numerous today thanks to a combination of general troughiness over the eastern half of the country, the presence of the surface boundary located in the Tennessee River Valley this morning, and afternoon heating. Because of the showery nature of the storms, not everyone will get rain, but a lot of us will. Be sure to be vigilant about the dangers of lightning and do not take any chances with it.
While the general troughiness continues with us through Tuesday, I expect to see thunderstorms return to more of a scattered nature Sunday and through the upcoming week. As the troughiness over the eastern half of the US weakens in response to the building ridge, expect to see temperatures climb back up into the mid 90s and even upper 90s toward the latter part of the upcoming week. As the ridge builds stronger, thunderstorms should become more isolated in character in the latter half of the week.
Tropics are quiet. There is one area of concentrated showers moving into Central America with no signs of any development that that feature. The SPC is outlooking an area of slight risk of severe weather from northwestern Kansas to Minnesota for Day 1 and that area shifts eastward to the western Great Lakes on Day 2 as the main storm track remains well to our north along the US-Canadian border.
Rainfall today is likely to be heavy in spots with the slow movement of the storms. Isolated 2 to 3 inch amounts are possible with many locations getting three-quarters to one and one half inches of rain. I’m pulling for my yard to get some of the rain, so I plan to mow as soon as I finish this and my breakfast. Then I’m going to run by the Helena Farmers Market at the Buck Creek Amphitheater Park for some locally grown produce.
The overall weather pattern remains basically unchanged well out into voodoo land as we continue to contend with the strong ridge over the Southeast US.
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