Cool and Quiet

The last several days of April contained very active weather for the eastern half of the nation. A tornado outbreak  reached its climax on April 28 and heavy rain lead to flooding on the last two days of the month. Currently the weather across the country is much more quiet with cool conditions in the East and the West baking under much above normal temperatures. Over the weekend the cool temperatures across the East will maintain as the heat loosens it grip on the West and moves into the central part of the nation.

The most tornadoes of the outbreak occurred on April 28 and the activity was centered on Alabama and Mississippi. Preliminary more than one hundred tornadoes occurred across the nation and numerous people lost their lives as a result of the storms. An additional dozen of tornadoes occurred on April 29th, mostly in North Carolina. The total death toll from this tornado event stands at thirty-five.

Currently the region is under the influence of an upper level trough of low pressure that is maintaining cool conditions over the area. High temperatures in Northeast Ohio will reach near 60 today. Heat will continue over the southwest portion of the nation with many locations in the 90's to near 100. 

Another cool front will work through the Great Lakes region overnight Saturday. There will be chance of rain with the frontal passage and high temperatures in Northern Ohio will stay in the upper 50's throughout the weekend. The heat located over the southwest portion of the nation will move into the southern Plains with temperatures there soaring into the 90's.

Monday will be the last day under cool conditions in Northern Ohio before a warm-up occurs. High temperatures will be near 60 Monday and Tuesday before a pronounced warm-up begins in earnest on Wednesday.

The last half of next week should find the Ohio Valley experiencing above normal temperatures as a ridge of high pressure becomes center over the Southeast. Severe weather and heavy rain will become a possibility as a storm system over the west begins to move east and a stationary front boundary is located nearby.