Day 210: Heatwave Returning

Posted by on 29 Jul 2010 | 0 comments

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Mr. Chad Cowan captured an amazing photograph of the record producing thunderstorm discussed in last night’s blog post. I have added this photograph to the end of last night’s blog post. I encourage you to take a look! You can go to that post by clicking here. Note, this photograph is reproduced with his permission. If you are interested in viewing aditional photographs by Chad, please visit his website: ChaseTheStorms.com.
UPDATE 1: The photograph was taken about an hour to an hour-and-a-half after the record producing hailstone. As you can imagine, the storm was probably even more intense when producing the record hail.
Day 210 (a)

It’s been a while since I’ve done a forecast post of any sorts, so tonight I thought I’d give (most) everyone bad news: a very hot heatwave is potentially in the works for next week. The image above (and denoted below) is from this morning’s run of the Global Forecast System (GFS) Model and is valid for Monday evening. It depicts a very large subtropical ridge (high) over much of the United States. This ridge will bring with it very warm temperatures across a large portion of the United States, and not much potential for rain. The main storm track lifts north into the far northern United States and southern Canada, so cold fronts will be hard to come by.

Not shown here, but the GFS is hinting at the possibility of a tropical wave of some sort to develop off the Atlantic coast by late next week. It will certainly bear watching!

Day 210 (b)