Friday, July 17, 2009

Records in jeopardy as autumnlike airmass sets in

Waking up this morning with temperatures in the 50s makes it hard to believe we're in the middle of July. A pocket of cold air in the great lakes adding cold air advection from the north will cause for temps to barely make it to 70 degrees today and keep us in the 60s tomorrow. Meanwhile, low temps will get down into the low 50s for the next couple of days. These temps are some 10-15 degrees below normal. The average high for this time of year is 84 and the average low is 64. This weekend there needs to be an eye on a few records that can be broken. In particular, record cool highs and record lows. The forecasted high for today is 70. Below is a list of records likely to be broken with the record and the year.

Friday (Record Cool/Min High: 80, 1878)
Saturday (Record Cool/Min High: 78, 1942) Saturday (Record Low: 53, 1979)
Sunday (Record Cool/Min High: 78, 1977)
Monday (Record Cool/Min High: 79, 1977)