Summery Pattern

The weather last week was quite summery as Cleveland officially hit the 90 degree mark on two consecutive days. A brief cool down occurred during the weekend but the start of this work week has found the area experiencing warm and humid conditions.  A slow moving system is generating scattered thunderstorms with isolated severe weather and locally heavy rain. Areas that experience repeated bouts of heavy rain will be at risk for flooding. A system will move through by mid-day Wednesday allowing drier air to move in later in the day. Slightly cooler and drier air will move in for Thursday and Friday before a return to much warmer and humid conditions return for the weekend. 

Currently the area is south of a slowly advancing cool front.  Showers and thunderstorms will occur until the front moves through by mid-day Wednesday. Heavy rain will be the main threat but isolated severe weather cannot be ruled out as evidence by the tornado on June 23^rd in Brunswick.

A tornado rated EF1 (top winds 110) moved through the center of Brunswick late Monday evening. Multiple buildings sustained damaged and a few residents were declared uninhabitable.

 Once the cool front moves through Wednesday the area will experience a slightly cooler and dry air mass. High temperatures will be near 80 degrees both days.

The weekend will mark the beginning what looks like an extended period of hot and humid weather for the region. A Bermuda High pressure will set up pumping warm and humid conditions into the area. By Sunday high temperatures will be near 90 degrees. Severe thunderstorms with possible tornadoes will likely across the Central Plains as low pressure moves out of the Rocky Mountains over the weekend. 

In the extended the region will stay under warmer than average conditions. Typical scattered afternoon thunderstorms will be increasing likely across much of the Eastern USA.