22 MAY 2010 EXTENDED FORECAST

JUST AN FYI - POSSIBLE TROPICAL SYSTEM/STORM TO HIT CAROLINAS NEXT WEEK (THURSDAY?).....NO MENTION YET FROM THE "BIG BOYS" - BUT JUST WATCH IT HAPPEN.............

United States Weather Extremes:
Fri's High Temperature: 104 at Pecos Tx
Sat's Low Temperature: 16 at Truckee Ca

ON THIS DAY IN WEATHER HISTORY:
1882 - An unusual late season snow blanketed eastern Iowa, with four to six inches reported around Washington.

1989 - Severe thunderstorms developing along a cold front resulted in 98 reports of large hail and damaging winds in the Northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley. Golf ball size hail caused a million dollars damage around Buffalo City, WI, baseball size hail was reported at Northfield and Randolph, MN, and thunderstorm winds gusted to 95 mph at Dunkerton, IA.

22 MAY 2010 EXTENDED FORECAST

TODAY AND SUNDAY 22ND/23RD - PARTLY CLOUDY THRU THE WEEKEND - WINDS SOUTHERLY AND GUSTY - TEMPS 84/90

MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 24TH/28TH - STRONG HIGH PRESSURE HAS BUILT OVER THE SOUTHEAST U.S. AS LOW PRESSURE MOVED NW TO SE INTO EASTERN COLORADO (THIS WEATHER REGIME USUALLY WILL KEEP US HIGH AND DRY). A FRONT HAS DEVELPED FROM THE DAKOTAS, DOWN THRU EASTERN NEBRASKA, AND SOUTH THRU CENTRAL KANSAS.....THE HIGH PRESSURE WILL HALT ANY EASTWARD MOVEMENT OF THE FRONT - STALLING IT OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF IOWA THRU THE PERIOD....

THE FRONT WILL BEGIN TO FLUX BACK AND FORTH FROM WEST TO EAST TODAY AND SUNDAY FIRING THUNDERSTORMS FROM DES MOINES WESTWARD. I'M THINKING RIGHT NOW, THE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN WELL WEST OF POW COUNTY UNTIL LATER TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY....WE SHOULD SEE ENUF EASTWARD MOVEMENT OF THE FRONT DURING THAT TIME PERIOD TO SEE ISOLATED SHOWERS AND ***THUNDERSTORMS LATE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. PRECIP AMOUNT WILL REMAIN BELOW 1/4 INCH, BUT MAY SEE ABIT MORE UNDER AN ISOLATED STORM.....THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK LOOKS DRY WITH EXCEPTION OF A SHOT AT VERY ISOLATED AFTERNOON SHOWERS......TEMPS WILL RANGE IN THE MID TO HIGH 80'S THRU THE WEEK - COOLING TO NEAR 80 BY FRIDAY........

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND:

SATURDAY 29TH - DRY - TEMP NEAR 80

SUNDAY 30TH - PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH ISOLATED ***THUNDERSTORMS (POSSIBLY STRONG STORMS THRU AFTERNOON AND EVENING) TEMP HIGH 70'S

MONDAY 31ST - PARTLY CLOUDY WITH AFTERNOON ***THUNDERSTORMS - TEMPS MID 80'S