Wet Week before a Cool Weekend

After a delightful and dry weekend for the local area an active and wet work week is setting up. A strong but slow moving storm system has generated rounds of severe weather over the weekend and it will affect Northern Ohio for much of the week with rain. Temperatures will rise and become summery by Thursday before a strong cold front and and much cooler air arrive for the weekend. Rounds of severe will affect the Nation until the storm system clears the East Coast.

The local is being influenced by cool high pressure local to the north. It is sending a cool and dry air mass into the area. High temperatures reached the lower sixties (60's) as clouds over spread the area. A strong storm system moving into the Plain States will generate severe weather from Nebraska south to the Red River Valley. All modes of severe weather will be likely with tornadoes possible across Oklahoma.

Tomorrow a warm front will begin approaching the local area. Periods of showers and possible thunderstorms will occur during the day. High temperatures may be suppressed in the upper fifties (50's) if dry periods are sparse later in the day. Severe weather will be possible for the lower Ohio Valley and across sections of Texas. On Wednesday the the warm front will move through during the day with more showers and thunderstorms possible. High temperatures should rise into the lower seventies (70's) if the area experiences enough dry conditions.  Severe weather will again be possible across the Middle Mississippi River Valley.

On Thursday a strong storm system will move into the Western Great Lakes with an active cold front. A warm front will clear the area and high temperatures will rise well into the the seventies (70's). With warm and increasingly humid conditions across the area severe weather will be possible along the entire cold front.

On Friday the first cold front will clear the area and temperatures will cool down into the lower sixties (60's). Showers and thunderstorms will be possible along the cold front as it affects the East Coast. A stronger cold front will arrive late Friday and will usher in much cooler weather for Saturday. High temperatures will hold in the fifties (50's) with cloudy and possible showery conditions across the area.

On Sunday high pressure will begin to assert its influence own the area. Conditions will remain cool with high temperatures remaining in the fifties (50's) but conditions should be dry.