Stone Age WX: October 12-13, 2024
A Web-Only Drop, of Agenda-Free Weather
Let’s talk about the weather…
Welcome to Stone Age WX, a weekend weather forecast offered to you every Friday evening as a Web-Only Drop. As a life-long weather-geek I love talking about the weather, and with these drops I hope to provide fresh, unique takes on it… without any sort of agenda.
After all, in a world where there is so much division, the one thing we ALL share, whether we believe in ‘climate change’ or ‘climate manipulation’… or neither?
Weather. We all have it, we all discuss it.
And since we do? Let us do so here…
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-- The desert Southwest will continue to get scorched over the weekend, with triple-digit temperatures expected in several area locales. Record-breaking heat will also impact much of the Central and Southwest portions of the country, though Sunday should provide some relief for the Central slice of the country.
The good news for those of you in the desert portions of Arizona and California? A cool-down is finally on the way, with high temps settling into the upper-80°s by Friday.
-- Meanwhile, the Great Lakes and the upper Ohio Valley are looking at potential storms developing overnight Saturday and firing up pretty much all day Sunday. Localized rain amounts could get as high as two inches in some areas (especially near the Lakes), with the unsettled conditions expanding from Pennsylvania into New England, down through northern New Jersey.
Many of these storms are forecast to stick around until at least Monday evening, with no break in the action for you on Sunday. So basically, if you are going to enjoy any aspect of your weekend?
Better do it on Saturday…
-- I am finding it mildly disconcerting that we are seeing warmer-than-average nighttime temperatures in most areas of the Mountain West. While it is not unheard-of for lows to be repetitively above freezing in mid-October, it is not exactly common, either.
Again, it’s only ‘mildly’ disconcerting at this point, so I am not fretting over it much. Still, it is something I plan to keep my eye on in the days and (if necessary) weeks ahead, because without healthy snowpacks primed to feed the rivers of our nation in the spring months?
Then… we may have something over which to ‘fret’…
-- And that’s all I got for now; I hope you enjoyed this Web-Only forecast. If you have weather tidbits you’d like to share (or are just a weather-geek like me), feel free to post your weather conditions and forecasts in the comments below.
Enjoy your weekend, and - as always - stay weather-aware!
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