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Issued by NWS Detroit/Pontiac, MI
Issued by NWS Detroit/Pontiac, MI
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918 FXUS63 KDTX 070954 AFDDTX Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac MI 554 AM EDT Mon Jul 7 2025 .KEY MESSAGES... - Some lingering showers possible near the Ohio border early today. Otherwise, cooler and less humid conditions expected. - Dry and seasonable conditions Tuesday. - Shower and storm potential returns mid-late week with temperatures trending above normal. && .AVIATION... A cold front marked by a northerly wind shift has passed across all TAF sites this morning with widespread low stratus now in place across the area. The front continues slowly advancing onward into Ohio and Lake Erie through the day as high pressure builds across the Great Lakes. The low ceilings are expected to linger through the morning hours, likely fluctuating between MVFR and IFR, before daytime heating promotes mixing to VFR for the afternoon. Prevailing north wind continues into this evening before going very light tonight. Lingering moisture from recent rainfall may allow for some pockets of ground fog development overnight but low confidence precludes a mention in the TAF for now. Otherwise VFR conditions through tonight. For DTW/D21 Convection...Thunderstorms are not forecast today into tonight. THRESHOLD PROBABILITIES... * High for ceiling 5000 ft or less this morning, then low this afternoon. && .PREV DISCUSSION... Issued at 300 AM EDT Mon Jul 7 2025 DISCUSSION... Slow moving cold frontal boundary still anchored across southern lower Mi early this morning will vacate the region to the south through the latter half of the morning. Meaningful post-frontal advective process effectively establishing an extensive canopy of low stratus as a sufficiently moist low level environment quickly saturates. This cloud likely too hold into the early afternoon, before a secondary southward push of drier air arrives coincident with increasingly influential daytime mixing in prevailing north flow. Any lingering shower potential prior to fropa near ths Ohio border remains of limited coverage. Notably cooler and less humid for the peak heating period, with sufficient stability to maintain dry conditions. Onshore flow off lake Huron mutes the diurnal temperature recovery more significantly across the thumb region, capping highs in the low to mid 70s. Elsewhere, recovery in temperature toward the upper 70s/lower 80s anticipated. High pressure fixated over the northern great lakes will govern conditions tonight and Tuesday. This ensures a dry and stable profile holds this period. Despite existing low level easterly flow, a high degree of insolation potential affords modest modification of the resident airmass Tuesday. Late day readings peaking in the low to mid 80s - or right around average. Generally zonal mid level flow will give way to broad, lower amplitude troughing during the latter half of the week. This transition driven by an initial window of modest falls Tuesday night and Wednesday as minor shortwave energy embedded within the flow traverses the region. This will draw slightly greater moisture content into the region starting Wednesday. Typical diurnal boundary layer destablization with steeper lapse rates gaining greater depth given slight mid level cooling under the suppressed mid level height field. Plausible this environment effectively removes any lingering capping concerns, affording some pockets of free convective development. Otherwise, reliance on still ill-defined sources of ascent, likely in the form of lake breeze/outflow interaction and/or regions of greater differential heating and moisture convergence. Forecast will continue to outline a generic chance mention targeting the afternoon and evening hours. Limited wind magnitude within this pattern precludes a more organized convective risk. MARINE... Any lingering showers and thunderstorms early today mainly around western Lake Erie will exit by midday as drier air increases influence. Otherwise, post-frontal northerly winds will exist today, peaking around 20 knots over lake Huron. Dry conditions with generally light wind and wave action expected tonight and Tuesday as high pressure establishes control. Turning warmer and more humid Wednesday and Thursday, offering a favorable underlying environment for afternoon and evening shower and thunderstorm development. Winds generally remain under 20 knots outside of any storms through this period. && .DTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MI...None. Lake Huron...None. Lake St Clair...None. Michigan waters of Lake Erie...None. && $$ AVIATION.....TF DISCUSSION...MR MARINE.......MR You can obtain your latest National Weather Service forecasts online at www.weather.gov/detroit.