Day 87: Central US Warm-up
A big warm-up is coming to the southern plains and very well could extend northward into the central and northern plains as well. The image above and below were generated from tonight’s 00 UTC (7 PM CDT) initialization of the North American Model (NAM). The color fill in both of these images is the forecast surface temperatures at 21 UTC (4 PM CDT) on Monday (top) and Tuesday (bottom).
A big warm-up is underway, with temperatures approaching lower 80sF across far western Oklahoma and the eastern Texas panhandle on Monday. By Tuesday, the warmth expands even more, and the NAM forecasts temperatures above 90F in the Childress, Texas area. Temperatures could very well approach and even exceed 70F across portions of southern Canada!
This warm-up is the result of a strong low that is developing along the west coast of the United States. This will help to warm the central United States, and should begin to draw up moisture by the end of the week. As the west coast trough (low) moves into the central United States, severe weather chances should increase.
The spring severe weather season could very well be about to begin…
