Area Forecast Discussion
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786 FXUS61 KILN 220543 AFDILN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION National Weather Service Wilmington OH 143 AM EDT Sun Sep 22 2024 .SYNOPSIS... Warm conditions will continue through Sunday. A cold front will move through the region Sunday night into Monday, bringing more seasonable temperatures for the start of the work week. This will also result in episodic chances for showers and thunderstorms through Tuesday, with a great deal of uncertainty in the forecast for the latter half of the upcoming week. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM THIS MORNING/... High clouds passing across the region should continue to thin leaving a mostly clear night. Pretty substantial low level moisture gradient in place from north to south. Where dew points remain higher, there will likely be some river valley fog. Made some slight adjustments to lows given latest trends. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM THIS MORNING THROUGH 6 PM MONDAY/... The drier air entrenched across the region tonight into Sunday morning will be shunted to the E into the afternoon, with a fairly pronounced dewpoint gradient expected to go along with it as some richer LL moisture advects in from the W during the afternoon. But it will take some effort to truly moisten the profile, with an expectation that an approaching band of SHRA, with embedded TS, will erode with eastward extent. The SHRA may initially be falling from a deck at about 8-10kft, with quite a bit of dry air to overcome in the LL. This is shown well even on the typically more moisture-robust guidance, with a rather deep layer of dry air in the bottom 8-10kft to overcome, especially during the onset. So while there will most certainly be some virga and perhaps some sprinkles, the prospect of appreciable measurable rainfall drops off rather abruptly near/E of I-75 Sunday afternoon. With some more expansive cloud cover moving in during the afternoon from the W, temps on Sunday will be warmest in the E (lower 90s), with mid 80s favored near/W of I-75. An additional S/W will move into the region Sunday evening through early Sunday night, but will again encounter an increasingly-unfavorable environment locally (after sunset) with eastward extent. So more of the same is on tap Sunday evening/night, wherein approaching SHRA/TSRA from the W should decrease in coverage with eastward extent, providing little more than perhaps a brief period of RA (and generally less than a tenth of any inch) for any one location. While there still should be /some/ precip Sunday evening/night for many locales, the SCT nature of the activity lends itself to PoPs being trimmed rather significantly from previous fcst cycles, generally topping out at only 50-60%. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/... A more active pattern will be in place for the long term. Models continue to be in general agreement through Wednesday with more variability beyond that time. While there is at least some rainfall potential throughout the long term, the greatest likelihood of precipitation is Monday and especially Tuesday. Breezy conditions are also expected on Tuesday. Kept the model blend low end pops for beyond Wednesday with greater uncertainty in place. With precipitation chances and increased cloud cover during the extended, temperatures will be lower than what has been in place. High temperatures in many locations will be in the 70s with some 80s also possible southeast of Interstate 71 on Monday. Lows will be in the 50s and 60s. && .AVIATION /06Z SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/...
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Some river valley fog will be possible through daybreak and this could lead to some MVFR vsby restrictions at KLUK. Otherwise, high and mid level clouds will increase through today ahead of a weak mid level short wave approaching from the west. This will also lead to the potential for scattered showers and a few thunderstorms later this afternoon into this evening. The best chance for these would be at the western TAF sites. Some MVFR cigs will develop late tonight, toward the end of the 30 hour KCVG TAF period. OUTLOOK...MVFR cigs possible Monday morning. Thunderstorms possible Tuesday.
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&& .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...None. KY...None. IN...None. && $$ SYNOPSIS...KC NEAR TERM... SHORT TERM...KC LONG TERM... AVIATION...JGL