Forecast Last Updated at Sunday, July 12, 2020 at 6:52AM

Late Thunderstorm Potential

After very pleasant temperatures to start the day, skies will be partly sunny with an increasing potential for late-day and nighttime showers and thunderstorms. Isolated showers and thundershowers linger into Monday daytime, before we dry things out for Tuesday and Wednesday. Temperatures return to above-normal levels next week, but nothing really out of the ordinary for mid-July.

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Sunday Hi: 86 Lo: 64 Lots of sunshine, then more late-day cloud build-ups; Hit-or-miss showers & t-storms late-day into tonight; Light & variable wind

Monday Hi: 85 Lo: 61 Mostly sunny; An isolated shower or thundershower; Light NW wind

Tuesday Hi: 87 Lo: 63 Abundant sunshine; Very warm; Nearly calm wind

Wednesday Hi: 89 Lo: 66 Mostly sunny; On the hot side

Thursday Hi: 89 Lo: 67 Mostly sunny & rather hot; Stray PM thundershower

Further Out

Friday - Sunshine followed by more PM clouds; Hit-or-miss PM showers & thundershowers; Very warm; High in the upper 80s; Low in the upper 60s
Saturday - Sunshine followed by more PM clouds; Scattered PM showers & thundershowers; More humid; High in the mid 80s; Low in the upper 60s

Forecast Discussion

An upper level disturbance will slide southeastward out of the Ohio Valley region today, and this will promote scattered coverage of late-day and nighttime showers and thunderstorms around the mountains. This should not detract from an otherwise nice day around the mountains, with partly sunny skies.

We hold onto isolated showers on Monday as the trough axis slides by. Thereafter, a building ridge of high pressure at the surface and aloft will provide a summer weather lover’s delight for Tuesday through Thursday with lots of sunshine, very warm temperatures, and minimal pop-up shower and thundershower chances.

Once we get to late week and next weekend, a Bermuda High pressure system will become better established, and this will promote some better moisture transport into the mountains off both Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico moisture sources. That should be enough to enhance our afternoon thundershower production by the time we reach next weekend.

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