Welcome to the Unofficial End of Summer

Labor Day's been a bit soggy so far today. Here's a look at your local radar.


I think we should catch a break in the action later in the day so you might be able to squeeze in a little labor day cook out later this evening.

Here's a look at your 5-day Forecast:

Forecast Discussion:

Hey folks, long time no see. I figure as we head into the fall and winter months I'd get the old blog up and running again. As you can see in the 5-day forecast above, things are looking a bit soggy as we finish out the week and here's why.



We have a bit of an upper level disturbance over the area right now. It's providing just enough instability to spark off showers and a few thunderstorms as it sits over the area. Unfortunately there's nothing to shove this disturbance on out of the Ohio Valley, so we're stuck with it for the next few days. I don't think we see wall to wall rain, but we will see off and on showers and thunderstorms... much like the last two days.

I think by Saturday it should dissipate and leave us dry for the weekend though. Here's a look at the GFS for this weekend.

Saturday Afternoon


Sunday Afternoon


It should be noted the Canadian model is keeping us wet this weekend, but with the GFS and Euro both holding frontal passage back to Monday, I'm going to lean towards that line of thinking for now.

Before I go, HPC has a cool new product for you Google Earth users out there. They're now making their day 1-3 QPF (Quantitative Precipitation Forecast) available as a KML file, viewable in GE.

Here's a sample of what it looks like:




Here's a link to the KML products the NWS distrbutes. Click Here.