Nice and Calm

The Thursday afternoon web video update is on the server:

http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb

No severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, flash floods, gravity waves, or hail around here for the next five days. The storm track shifts up north; we will enjoy a string of sunny days through early next week with daytime highs in the 70s, and cool nights, with early morning lows in the 40s. It doesn't get much better than this.

We did have a few spots of drizzle this morning lingering under the low cloud deck, but the sky is clearing nicely as I write this and we will have sunshine back in full force tomorrow.

NEXT WEEK: The 12Z run of the GFS is giving us a different solution for the latter half of next week; a system over the midwest drags a cold front down our way, but it might be the end of next week before any decent rain areas reach us. And, even then, the main dynamics will pass well to the north. The idea of a drier latter half of April still looks good.

Is the tornado season over? No. I would not be shocked if we had an active May around here... it would be very unusual for the primary jet stream to shift up north toward the Canadian border in mid-April and stay there all the way through May.