monsoonmartin

Hey there - just a brief forecast about the coming week.  Some of you have been hearing about the potential for wintry precipitation on Friday, so here's the straight dope.

Note: the origin of this phrase comes from betting on the ponies.  When stimulants had been given to racehorses (that is, they had been doped), gamblers wanted to know about it.  The term "straight dope" started as a phrase describing what had been given to those poor animals, then came to mean the (very salient) information itself.

But, as always, I digress.

David Hasselhoff has been cast in Sharknado 3, due out (on Syfy) this summer. It's apparently set in Washington, D.C. and features Mark Cuban (the outspoken billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner) as the President and Ann Coulter (the hatemongering right-wing pundit/columnist/she-devil) as the Vice President. Whatever. Hasselhoff!!!

Tuesday 3/17 begins with a few showers and overcast skies, reaching a high in the mid to upper 50s by early afternoon.  Then temperatures fall, winds kick up, and we get a few degrees below freezing by early Wednesday morning.

Wednesday looks windy and colder with highs only in the upper 30s.

Thursday is partly sunny and a bit milder with highs in the mid 40s.

Precipitation moves in late Thursday night into Friday.  Surface temperatures will be above freezing, but cold air in the upper atmosphere could bring us some wintry precipitation.  Right now I'd say we get mainly rain with a bit of wet snow (melting on surfaces) mixed in.  We'd really need snow to fall heavily to accumulate at this time of year, and this won't be heavy.  I think it's no big deal.

Chance of delay Friday, 17%

Chance of cancellation Friday, 3.75%

Saturday gets milder (high in the low 50s) but is breezy and overcast generally.  A few rain showers are possible overnight into Sunday.

Colder, then: highs in the 40s and lows around freezing on Sunday and Monday.  And Tuesday.

Stay tuned for updates!

Monsoon