October 31, 2010: Happy Halloween - tracking Tomas

October 31, 2010:

"Bottom Line It For Me Beau"

Severe or extreme weather risk for today, tonight, and tomorrow:  0%
 


Nice weather.  Winds will be light.  Highs in the upper 60s and lows tonight will be in the 36-41 degree range.  Fire danger remains high.  

For your return to work on Monday - Partly sunny with highs in the middle 60s.

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Good morning everyone.  Happy Halloween!  The weather has been wonderful over the last couple of days.  A bit chilly at times - but can complain about that?

Your daily weather map:





















The Paducah, Kentucky National Weather Service Office put out this map (centering in on our counties).  You can see a dry cold front moving through our local counties.





















I have friends in Ontario this morning that are reporting snowflakes!  Winter is knocking!

Dry conditions will continue over the coming days - please refrain from outside burning.  Some burn bans have been lifted, however, conditions have barely changed - fire danger remains high.

The weather will be nice today.  A few clouds on Monday and mostly cloudy as we move into Monday night and Tuesday.  A few showers across the southern portion of our area.

No extreme weather is on the map (for our region at least).  Some chilly nights and cool days are ahead of us.  It is November now (well one more day).  Normal highs for this time of the year are around 64 degrees and the normal low for the Paducah vicinity is around 41.

Let's take a look at a forecast map for this coming Saturday (the 6th of November).  This map is showing you what the GFS believes temperatures will be - blue is below normal temperatures and red/orange is above normal temperatues.  You can see the forecast model is predicting a chilly weekend (next weekend).  There are even hints of a chance of a few snow flakes across portions of the Ohio Valley towards Friday/Saturday.























We have been averaging above normal - overall - for the past month.  I will post the Sept and October verification maps (for my fall forecast) tomorrow.

Your seven day forecast can be viewed by clicking here.

The next big storm on the horizon is quite a bit days away.  Perhaps after the 9th or 10th of the month.

Hurricane Tomas continues to move through the Caribbean.  Interests in the Caribbean should keep an eye on the eventual track of this system.  It appears that Tomas will make a turn to the north and should eventually move towards Cuba/Haiti.  In between perhaps. 

The web-site for the National Hurricane Center can be found by clicking here.

A look at Tomas on satellite this morning:



















- Meteorologist Beau Dodson
McCracken County Office of Emergency Management

For the latest watches and warnings please visit your local National Weather Service Office http://www.weather.gov/organization.php

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