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.LONG TERM /MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/...
As of 235 PM Saturday...
Same
front, different day. Frankly, the models show the
front that
will be over the region Monday morning making little progress
throughout the entire week. The
front will eventually weaken and
serve as less of a forcing mechanism, but at least at the beginning
of the week, there are indicators from model guidance that there
could be
isolated areas with extremely heavy
rainfall. The 12Z
NAM
put out some bulls-eyes of 5 inches of rain in 24 hours, the 00Z
GFS
did something similar, and a 00Z run of the European model also
showed the possibility for heavy
rainfall as well. It is too early
to pinpoint any specific locations that could receive heavy
rainfall
(so no
flash flood watch will be issued at this time), but the
threat is definitely there. This is already highlighted in the
Hazardous Weather
Outlook. Through the extended forecast, Monday
still appears to be the day with both the greatest coverage of rain
as well as the most intense rain. There will be a diminishing trend
through the week, with
rainfall likely across southern counties on
Tuesday, then chance
pops on Wednesday before at least one dry day
is possible on Thursday. A
slight chance of thunderstorms returns to
the forecast for Friday and Saturday.
With the extensive cloud cover and
rainfall on Monday, that should
be the coolest day of the week, with highs only in the low to mid
80s. Temperatures return to values near
climatology on Wednesday and
will remain that way into the weekend