Happy Tuesday, everyone.
Meteorologist Kate Lee Bowers here, we're tracking some scattered showers,
thunderstorms and snow across the country.
A good portion of the region seeing some rain but parts of
the northern plains in the Midwest still dealing with some snow.
Now, the storm prediction
center has upgraded us to a level two slight risk for our western
counties and also that level one marginal risk for us as well.
Don't get too fixated on the colors.
Everyone in our area has a potential for strong storms later on this evening.
And in fact, part of Ohio
under wind advisory
as well and that will be our biggest concern, heavy rain
and strong winds, but we're also seeing some fairly mild temperatures.
It's 53 right now in Toledo Paducah at 57 Chicago at 55.
But things are much colder parts of Minnesota
at 25 Bismarck seeing temperatures at nine degrees.
We're not gonna be anywhere near that cold but
looking a little bit closer to your neighborhood.
We're seeing temperatures this lunchtime hour
in the low to mid fifties and we're forecasting
those highs in the sixties for this afternoon.
Right now,
things are quiet just seeing those overcast skies and having that damp feeling,
eventually those showers will move on in later on tonight.
But look at these wind gusts,
wind gusts right now around 40 to almost 50 mile an hour gusts in some areas.
So it is gonna be a windy afternoon as well.
But looking ahead towards the rest of the day, if you're heading home from school,
you'll be fine around 3 p.m. just dealing with those overcast ski.
And then here come those rain chances later on your evening commute,
that's will be a little bit more on the soggy side, but see temperatures back in
the sixties. So putting this in motion right around 34
PM, those showers will start to develop in our far western counties.
Parts of Hillsdale down towards Brian starting to move towards was
on. Let's fast forward, watch how quickly the system moves through.
Here's eight o'clock stretching from Monroe
Toledo BG down towards Finley,
seeing some of those very heavy rain showers, but just as quick as it moves in,
it moves on out of here.
So a lot of this will be done by the time a lot
of us will be wrapping up the day if not already asleep.
And then the rest of the evening,
mostly cloudy skies and seeing temperatures
still fairly mild for tomorrow morning
in the upper thirties and low forties.
And we're gonna continue to see some cooler temperatures
that's because of the cold front that's moving through
right now because those storms so cooling down for the rest of the week,
back to the forties and the fifties.
But we could see a slight decrease in our clouds later on into Wednesday.
But yes, still tracking some strong winds throughout this afternoon.
And throughout this evening,
wind gusts possible again around 3040
some places could be close to 50 mile an
hour gusts throughout this afternoon also throughout this evening.
And that's why that wind advisory has been issued for part of our area
today
one more day with temperatures in the sixties,
then back to cooling down in the forties for tomorrow.
Fifties for Thursday, at
least we're near 60 by Friday. But in the weekend
seeing some fairly seasonal temperatures in the mid to upper fifties,
talk about April fools mid forties for April
1st and still see those below average temperatures for
the first few days of April and looking ahead towards the first week or so of April,
we're tracking some fairly seasonal temperatures all across the
area and look what's on our temperature outlook.
April 2nd to April 8th, which is that total solar eclipse day,
Monday, April 8th. So right now
just looking at some models, we could,
could see some fairly seasonal temperatures.
And as far as rain
again, this is just all probability,
it's still very soon to determine exactly temperature cloud cover precipitation,
but looks like we'll be seeing some fairly seasonal rainfall as well.
So it's still too soon. But, but we're getting closer and closer in a few more days.
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and take a look at your holiday countdown five days until Easter less than two weeks
until that total solar eclipse 47 days until
Mother's Day and 62 days until Memorial Day.
So we're getting closer and closer to seeing those summer holidays but
is not feeling like summer.
It's looking like spring for sure,
seeing temperatures in the sixties with that chance for some scattered showers and
thunderstorms the rest of the week looks to be nice and dry.
In fact, Friday will be beautiful for the mud hens home opener,
lots of sunshine temperatures
in the fifties. We are tracking another chance for some rain for Saturday.
Otherwise your Easter Sunday looking nice and dry temperatures again,
fairly seasonal in the mid to upper fifties.
But looking ahead towards those first few days of April
April showers. So hopefully they'll be bringing some may flowers.
We're seeing rain Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday and still seeing temperatures
below average in the forties and the fifties
have a great rest of your day.