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FXUS62 KGSP 011904
AFDGSP

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
304 PM EDT Sat Jun 1 2024

.SYNOPSIS...
Dry high pressure moves off the Carolina coast on Sunday with
warming temperatures and increasing moisture. A typical summer
pattern will develop during the first half of the week with daily
afternoon thunderstorm chances. Showers and thunderstorms will
likely increase in coverage for Wednesday and Thursday as a cold
front approaches our area, with drier weather expected to return by
the end of the week.

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.NEAR TERM /THROUGH SUNDAY/...
As of 2:25 PM Saturday...high clouds continue to expand eastward
across the western Carolinas with lower clouds still to our west.
Over the past few hours, shower coverage just to our west has di-
minished with more daytime heating. Overall trends wrt the shower
coverage haven`t changed significantly, with coverage over our area
not expected to increase substantially until overnight. Low temps
early Sunday should remain near-normal due to increased cloud cover
tonight/overnight and higher dewpts.

Otherwise, upper level ridging will deamplify and shift east and
off the Atlantic Coast this evening and early Sunday as an upper
shortwave moves over our area from the west. At the sfc, broad
high pressure will continue to gradually move off the Atlantic
Coast thru the near-term period as a moist frontal boundary moves
into the Western Carolinas from the west. Forcing ahead of the
above-mentioned upper shortwave has already reached our western
zones, however more substantial moisture advection from the Atlan-
tic will be slow to saturate the lower levels. The latest near-term
guidance still generates the bulk of the low-level moist transport
after midnight. Nonetheless, some iso to sct showers will likely
materialize across the NC mtns before that. More widespread precip
will spread over our fcst area overnight, but with very limited
instability and meager mid-level lapse rates thru the morning hrs,
thunder is unlikely until Sunday aftn, with the severe potential
still looking minimal at best for Sunday. Highs should remain 1 to
2 categories below climatology.

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.SHORT TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/...
As of 200 pm Saturday: The upper air pattern will become
increasingly anticyclonic across our region early in the short term,
as a weak ridge builds from the Deep South through the Great Lakes.
As a result, a deep moisture plume will gradually shunt east of the
forecast area early in the period. In the interim, scattered
coverage of showers along with a few storms will continue into
Sunday evening before steadily tapering off. Decreasing deep layer
moisture will yield less in the way of cloud cover, but also
improved potential for destabilization Monday afternoon. Diurnal
convection is forecast to initiate...esp across the high terrain.
While coverage is expected to be more limited than on Monday, sbCAPE
of around 1500 J/kg should allow for a few stronger storms, with
perhaps a stray pulse severe storm not completely out of the
question. With little change in the pattern and thermodynamic
profiles expected, Tuesday should be very similar to Monday, with
scattered diurnal convection expected, and perhaps a slight uptick
in the threat for a pulse severe storm with hotter conditions
expected. The first half of the period is expected to see temps
average around...or slightly above normal...while the short term is
expected to end around 5 degrees above climo.

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.LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/...
As of 215 pm Saturday: An expansive/deep upper low will wobble from
the Canadian Prairie at the start of the period to the Great Lakes
by Thursday evening. Height falls associated with a vorticity lobe
lifting ahead of the low is expected to send a frontal boundary
into the region by late Wed, enhancing convective chances across the
southern Appalachians and vicinity Wed into Wed night. Indications
in global model guidance are that the afternoon will see at least
moderate instability, albeit in a modestly sheared environment. A
few strong-to-severe pulse storms and/or multicell clusters will be
possible.  An additional round of storms is possible Thursday,
although this is a bit more uncertain, as some global model guidance
suggests drier air will be filtering into the area in the wake of
the frontal boundary Thu afternoon. PoPs are generally advertised in
the solid chance range during that time. The latter half of the
period should become more inactive as lower theta-E air advects into
the region. PoPs for Fri/Sat are limited to token slight chances,
mainly over the mtns. Temperatures are forecast at around 2-4
degrees above normal through the period.

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.AVIATION /19Z SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/...
At KCLT and elsewhere: Expect VFR conditions to continue thru
the 18z period at all taf sites except at KAVL and KAND, where
cigs are expected to drop below VFR towards the end of the period
late tomorrow morning. The other terminals could see some lower
cigs by that time, but more than likely they will remain low-end
VFR thru the period. Otherwise, VFR clouds will gradually lower
tonight and early Sunday with sct showers approaching the area by
that time. I have PROB30s for shra at all sites beginning Sunday
morning and PROB30s for tsra by the early afternoon once some in-
stability is present. Winds should continue to favor a SLY to SELY
direction thru the period, becoming weaker later tonight and then
picking back up moderately by the early afternoon tomorrow.

Outlook: Diurnal shower and thunderstorm chances will linger thru
the middle of next week.

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.GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
GA...None.
NC...None.
SC...None.

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SYNOPSIS...DEO
NEAR TERM...JPT
SHORT TERM...JDL
LONG TERM...JDL
AVIATION...JPT