Monday's Observations

So wow today has been quite the weather filled day. Today's weather began with thunder that shook my house and woke me up. A facebook friend of mine caught this photo of the dark storm clouds approaching (this is the same cloud bank that I saw form my window this morning). Heavy rainfall and blustery winds were soon to follow this cloud bank.

So today's temperature is currently 58.1 deg F with a wind chill of 55.8 deg F. The dew point is 50.2 deg F creating a relative humidity of  75%. The wind is at 10mph from the southeast. The barometer is at 1008.6mb which is much lower than yesterday. The skies are currently 75% covered with altocumulus and cirrostratus clouds. This map from the Weather Channel shows a culmination of low pressure systems off to the west which explains the drop in the barometer as the low pressure systems move into the areas.

This map of the jet stream from Intellicast shows that there is a trough in the jet stream over the rocky mountains. This trough could potentially dip down over the Midwest as the low pressure systems move westward.

I forecast that the temperature will remain cooler tomorrow and that we could potentially see more rainfall by Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.