Friday, May 27, 2011

We've earned a nice weekend

Following a crazy late week bunch of storms, it looks like we've earned ourselves a nice holiday weekend.

Enjoy!

Saturday
Some morning clouds with afternoon sun. Showers are possible overnight.
High 77

Sunday
A mix of couds and sun with a chance of a left over morning shower.
High 83

Monday
Mostly sunny.
High in the upper 80s

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

After all this...it looks like a nice holiday weekend!

Wow...we're gonna get lucky.  After a week of clouds and rain, the holiday weekend is actually shaping up to be rather nice. Probably won't be 100% dry..some showers will perhaps float through during the overnights, but for the mot part we should be pretty decent.

Saturday - A mix of clouds and sun.  High 75-80

Sunday - Lots of sun. High 85

Monday (Memorial Day) - Mostly sunny.  High 80-85

Enjoy!

Monday, May 16, 2011

"Dog Nose" weather continues...cool and wet

The long range forecast for the next 30-days is not all that promising if you are waiting for sunny, hot weather.  The 30-day forecast for mid-May to mid-June (see maps below) is calling for temperatures to average below normal with rainfall above normal.

This cold pattern we are in now will break by the end of the week, and while we will likely hit the upper 70s and lower 80s for a few days next week, a some daytime highs in the 60s are still going to be around until the end of the month.


Sunday, May 15, 2011

Right back into that old wet pattern

So, here we are again...stuck in a cloudy and wet pattern. It moved in late last week and will continue with us for much of this coming week. Upper level instability will give us the chance of showers almost any time between now and Thursday. It's really hard to predict exactly when the rain/showers will move in. They'll just happen like they did over the weekend.

Temperatures will be rather cool this week as well. Our normal daytime high is around 70. We won't see that until later in the week.

We are stating to get a hint at the summer forecast. So far, it doesn't look good for lower Great Lakes region (that's us). The trend seems to be for a cool and damp summer. More on that later.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Things are turning...for the better...finally!

Ah finally, it looks like we are getting out of this weather funk we've been in for the past month and a half. Temperatures are going to be pretty nice this coming week. We are looking at 70s and perhaps even 80 through midweek. We will have some clouds with occasional showers possible almost any time after Monday, but for the most part theses should be scattered.

As we get to the end of next week, another cold surge is coming down from the north. Looks like weekend highs will be in the low 60s next weekend, but then should rebound into the low 70s to start the following week (week of May 15).

While the mid 60s and lower 70s are not what a lot of you would like to feel, I'll take it. I've had it with those daytime highs in the 50s.

Enjoy!

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Well, there is some good news

After I depressed most of you with my last post, here's a bit of good news. After we get past mid-week this week, temperatures will start to warm. We will likely see daytime highs in the 60s Thursday through the weekend, then actually warm up into the 70s for next week.  But, as I mentioned before, don't get too excited.

The following week, around May 16, temperatures are likely to drop again to normal or slightly below.  By that time normal daytime highs will be in the upper 60s to around 70, so even at that it won't be terribly cold. However, we will once again have to watch out for fast moving rain systems.

Slowly we are getting warmer...but, not drier.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Could May be like April? Yes it could!

I'm not liking what I'm seeing and reading. There is a real possibility that this cool, wet weather pattern could  continue well into the month of May. A week ago it seemed that by mid-May we would start to turn, but perhaps that thought was premature.

Indications are that the month of May is going
to be wet with rainfall averaging above normal.
(Map courtesy of www.accuweather.com)
For the near future, this week is looking just like April...cool and wet.  We will start to dry out and warm up a tad the later part of the week, but don't get excited. Our normal daytime highs the beginning of the month should be in the mid 60s.  By mid-month it's around 70. And, while we will touch those numbers on occasion, I don't foresee an extended warm spell during the next two weeks. We will likely spend a lot of days at or below normal. Bummer, eh?

So, in order to save your mental capacities, just don't plan on a change anytime soon.  (Hopefully this won't last all summer!)


The Month of April

OK...now let's look at just how yucky April was.

Temperature-wise, you may find this hard to believe, but the Akron/Cleveland area actually ended up around 2.5 degrees ABOVE normal. Yeah, I know it doesn't seem like it, but we had eight really warm days and that skewed the average. The highs the rest of the month were slightly above to slightly below normal. Add in the clouds and rain and the normal temperatures just didn't feel normal.

Rain was actually the big story for April. If you count calendar days (midnight to midnight), April had only 4 dry days. There were eight days when we had a TRACE of rain or snow. Every other day had measurable rainfall. Here at the Weather Center in Streetsboro we ended up with 4.97" of liquid...that's about 150% of normal. At the National Weather Service office at Cleveland Hopkins rainfall was more than twice normal. So, yep it was wet.