ENDING THE WEEK: There will be partly to mostly sunny skies across the state today, with readings in the 70s to lower 80s. The next system will move into the state late tonight through the first half of Thursday. This will bring some chances of showers and thunderstorms to the area. The chances will be isolated at best and not everyone will get precipitation from this system. Any rainfall amounts will generally be a quarter inch or less. The skies will begin to clear and some sunshine will be around by the afternoon hours for most of the state with highs mainly in the 70s. Friday will feature plenty of sunshine with readings in the 70s and 80s for highs.

WEEKEND SYSTEM: It can’t be a weekend in the summer without a storm system moving into the state with a chance of showers and thunderstorms with it. This system will be mainly bringing precipitation chances over the western half of the state on Saturday, the entire state Saturday night and the eastern half of the state on Sunday. It is too early yet to determine any severe weather risk but the chances are possible at least at this point. Readings on Saturday and Sunday will be in the 80s. Along with the warmer air, the dew points will be back into the 60s, so the air will be quite humid as well which will lead to any storm possibly dumping quite a bit of rain.

ON INTO NEXT WEEK: This model run shows that the frontal system that will move through the state during the upcoming weekend will begin to stall just to the south of the state. This would mean that most of the day on Monday would be dry with some partly to mostly sunny skies with readings in the 80s. The front looks to lift back north Monday night into Tuesday with a chance of showers and thunderstorms at that time. This looks to continue into Wednesday as well. Severe weather is possible but again it’s still too early to determine that risk at this time.

INTO THE EXTENDED PERIOD: The first few days of the extended period (the end of next week) will continue the theme of showers and thunderstorms around with a stalled front in the vicinity. We will have to watch model runs to see if this continues or if the front moves away. The pattern changes with more tranquil weather for a while with readings near seasonal levels in the 80s before another system drops in that could bring more precipitation to the area at that time. Of course all of this is speculation and is likely to change run to run at this point.

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