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FXUS63 KIWX 212330
AFDIWX

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
630 PM EST SAT NOV 21 2009

.AVIATION...
HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED OVER EASTERN GREAT LAKES WILL BRING CLEAR
SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS TO THE REGION THIS TAF PERIOD. WILL GO WITH
PERSISTENCE FORECAST IN ANTICIPATION OF FOG REDEVELOPING OVERNIGHT
AT BOTH TAF SITES OTHERWISE VFR CONDITIONS PREVAIL.

&&

.SHORT TERM...
UPPER RIDGE IS BUILDING OVER THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON AS SFC
RIDGING SLIDES SLOWLY EAST RESULTING IN A SUNNY DAY FOR MOST AS AN
AREA OF LATENT STRATUS CLOUDS DISSOLVES OVER SOUTH CENTRAL
COUNTIES. SIGNIFICANT MORNING FOG DEVELOPED UPSTREAM IN THE
ENVIRONMENT THAT WILL TRANSLATE OVERHEAD BY MORNING BRINGING A
REPEAT OF FOGGY CONDITIONS INTO MID/LATE MORNING AS MOSTLY CLEAR
SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS ON WEST SIDE OF DEPARTING SFC RIDGE ALLOWS
EFFECTIVE COOLING WHILE LLEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS IN PLACE PER TIME
HEIGHTS.

ON SUNDAY SUNSHINE WILL AGAIN MAKE ITS PRESENCE FELT ONCE MORNING
FOG/LOW STRATUS MIXES OUT THOUGH AS WITH TODAY SOME LOCATIONS MAY
NOT CLEAR OUT UNTIL MID TO LATE MORNING. TOMORROW AFTERNOON WILL
BE A BIT WARMER THAN TODAY AS TEMPS ALOFT AT H92 RISE A BIT WITH
SOUTHERLY FLOW DEVELOPING IN EARNEST TO JUST TO OUR WEST ON THE
BACK SIDE OF RETREATING LLEVEL RIDGE. ADEQUATE MIXING WOULD SEE
HIGHS REACH THE MID TO UPPER 50S WHICH IS IN LINE WITH A MET/MAV
GUIDANCE BLEND AND VERY SIMILAR TO INHERITED FORECAST.

BY MONDAY NIGHT DEEPER MOISTURE BEINGS TO ENCROACH FROM THE SOUTH
AHEAD OF WAVE LIFTING AWAY FROM THE GULF COAST WITH INCREASING
GRADIENT FLOW...SO WILL HOLD OFF ON ANY ADDITIONAL FOG MENTION FOR
MONDAY NIGHT AT THIS POINT WITH SLIGHTLY MILDER LOW TEMPS.

 &&

.LONG TERM...
MED RANGE GUIDANCE IN GOOD AGREEMENT INTO LT WEEK BFR DEPARTING WAYS
NXT WEEKEND. PARADE OF SW TROUGHS EMBEDDED WITHIN PERTURBED HIGH
MOMENTUM FLW ACRS THE NRN PACIFIC PROMISE AN UNSETTLED END TO
NOVEMBER. LEAD SW INTO THE SW US WILL DO LTL OTHER THAN DISLODGE
INTENSE SRN STREAM SW OVR LA SHRT TERM. MORE POTENT WAVE OUT NR 140W
WILL DIG INLAND SUN AND EMERGE OVR THE CNTRL PLAINS MON. CONTD
INTENSIFICATION SHLD LEAD TO A DECENT FNTL RAIN BAND TUE ALTHOUGH
STREAM SEPARATION AND WK MID LVL RIDGING ACRS THE GOMEX SUGGEST NO
SIG LL MSTR ENTRAINMENT INTO THIS SYS AND WILL CONT TO RIDE LOW CHC
POPS. MORE SUBSTANTIAL AMPLIFICATION UPSTREAM OF THIS SYS TIED TO
MORE SIG LW TROUGHING DVLPG ACRS THE NEPAC LT WEEK ALLOWS SECONDARY
FOLLOWING WAVE TO REINFORCE DEEPENING GREAT LAKES TROUGH AND FAIRLY
IMPRESSIVE SURGE OF COLD AIR THU/FRI WHICH LOOKS FVRBL FOR CONTD
RAIN/SNOW MENTION ALTHOUGH 12Z GUIDANCE WOULD BODILY FVR A BTR CHC
OF RAIN W/BNDRY LYR LOOKING A BIT TOO WARM.

OTHERWISE TEMPS NR NORMAL TO START...TAILING OFF TO BLO NORMAL BY
THANKSGIVING AND INTO NXT WEEKEND.

&&

.IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IN...NONE.
MI...NONE.
OH...NONE.
LM...NONE.
&&

$$

SHORT TERM...LUD
LONG TERM...HOLSTEN
AVIATION...LUD








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