Weather Highlights

August weather excitement

A Quick Note from Matthew

Hi everyone, I kept this week’s Weather Highlights newsletter a little shorter than the more lengthy one from last week. I purposely try to keep the newsletters brief and leave the website and Facebook for the more detailed forecast discussions.

We started posting more on the North Georgia page this week, which is about a year old. Our primary goal is to provide weather forecasts for areas outside of larger metro regions that often get overlooked. We’re starting in North Georgia, where we have a strong core following, but have plans to quickly expand into new areas all across the U.S. soon. Eventually, we want to produce a Weather Highlights newsletter for each specific region. I can’t wait!

Weekly Highlights through Late Next Week

• A strong heat ridge will build back over Texas and the Mid-South by the weekend, continuing the streak of very dry and hot conditions.

• A closed low over southern California and an eastward shift in southwestern ridging will favor an uptick in monsoonal activity across the Southwest through early next week.

• A ridge will build into the Pacific Northwest starting this weekend and push temperatures near/to heat wave levels next week.

• Areas along/near the Gulf coast and most of Florida will have unusually high temperatures and more-or-less the typical summer thunderstorm activity.

• A storm system will trek across the Northern Plains, Midwest, Great Lakes, and inland New England late weekend into early next week, ushering in a cold front that’ll eventually reach the northern half of the southeastern U.S.

• Much of the Southeast will have enhanced storm activity to close this week, but the northern half of the region will experience less storminess after next week’s front brings in drier and more stable air.

• Large-scale troughing and associated northwest flow will support another surge of cooler air pushing into the Northern/Central Plains, Midwest, Great Lakes, Upper/Mid-Mississippi Valley, and Ohio River Valley next week.

• An active storm track will persist across the above regions through early next week, with a severe weather and flooding risk.

• The aforementioned trough will favor southwesterly flow up the Eastern Seaboard, bringing (mostly) above average temperatures and humid conditions to at least the eastern half of the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions this weekend and most of next week.

• Unsettled conditions will persist for much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast next week before drying out around mid-week.