• May 20, 2013

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Most students get out of school for the summer by the end of this week. This week has plenty of prototypical "summer" weather in it, including today.

Today's Forecast: Hazy, warm, and humid, with a few isolated thunderstorms in the afternoon (mainly in the east). Highs 85-90.

Tonight: Partly cloudy and muggy. Some patchy fog late. Muggy, with lows in the mid 60s.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny and hot! Highs near 90.

The heat turns down a touch by mid-week, but that's also because more showers and storms arrive...(see below)

Discussion:

We're looking for a little break from the persistent pop-up storms, but it still appears we'll be stuck with a little again today-- but primarily focused east of the Big Sandy River (and farther still toward the WV mountains). At this point, you may want a brief shower to cool things down, because under any sunshine the steam builds and highs approach 90. Most of the day will feature dry skies, so even those who do end up being affected by a brief shower it won't be enough to write-off the entire day.

Tuesday is an 'in-between' day, with the last of the isolated PM storms leaving the WV mountains on its way eastward, but then another system approaches from the west (the one responsible for all the severe weather in the plains states). In the middle we'll find ourselves baking in 90-degree heat.

That system out to our west will move in on Wednesday, and stay until Friday morning. This will bring the typical showers and thunderstorms to go along with partly sunny skies, but the severe weather threat will be decided reduced on this system by the time it gets here (still something to keep an eye on just in case).

You'll love the fact that the showers will stroll through during the mid and latter parts of the work-week, because an early check of the weekend features returning sunshine and seasonably cool temperatures (lower 70s)... Can't beat it for a Memorial Day weekend. Now it's just got to hold ;-)

Have a great day everyone!

Brandon Butcher
WSAZ and myZtv Meteorologist


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