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Issued by NWS Detroit/Pontiac, MI
Issued by NWS Detroit/Pontiac, MI
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758 FXUS63 KDTX 070700 AFDDTX Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac MI 300 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. && .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. && .PREV DISCUSSION... Issued at 1158 PM EDT Sun Jul 6 2025 AVIATION... The cold front has settled south of MBS and is set to pass FNT at or soon after forecast issuance. A definitive northerly wind shift and onset of IFR ceiling are the tracers on north to south progress through SE Mi. The 500 mb trough trails the surface front just enough to support a stray shower along and shortly behind the front. Upstream ceiling observations across northern Lower Mi are solidly IFR which adds confidence to the late night forecast as the front moves slowly but steadily south to DTW before sunrise. IFR to MVFR ceiling then holds for several hours during the morning until breaking out into broken VFR coverage for the afternoon. Light northerly wind continues through the day as high pressure gradually assumes control into Monday evening. For DTW/D21 Convection... There is lingering low probability for thunderstorms late tonight as a cold front approaches from the north and moves through the D21/DTW airspace before sunrise. THRESHOLD PROBABILITIES... * Low for thunderstorms late tonight. * High for ceiling 5000 ft or less late tonight and through the morning. && .DTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MI...None. Lake Huron...None. Lake St Clair...None. Michigan waters of Lake Erie...None. && $$ DISCUSSION...MR MARINE.......MR AVIATION.....BT You can obtain your latest National Weather Service forecasts online at www.weather.gov/detroit.