The skies stay gray and the radar painted green as we remain locked in our active sub-tropical jet stream pattern with overcast conditions with occasional periods of rain likely through tomorrow afternoon. By tomorrow evening drier and more stable air, at least at low and mid-levels, will translate to an end of the significant precipitation. High pressure will move in at the surface and aloft for a couple of days with mostly sunny and cool conditions anticipated for Thursday and Friday. Another disturbance should be getting here for the weekend with a resumption of the current pattern likely to persist into next week.Â
The long range outlook for the Climate Prediction Center keeps us on the wet side through March with a gradual segue away from this El Nino pattern by early summer. That could mean a resumption of the active hurricane cycle that we got a break from last year. In addition, the long-lead outlooks from the CPC indicate a signal for above normal temperatures this summer…sounds good now, but by July we’ll be wishing for the cloudy, cool and wet weather that we have been enduring of late!