pcray I don't really count a drizzle I don't trust anything accuweather says.
Well, I don't really trust when any prognostication says an individual system is going to come through more than a few days in advance. So I'm not taking it verbatim.
But I do trust overall patterns, not just from accuweather, but from looking at weather maps, models, etc.
What happened before is that the northern jet moved north like it's supposed to do in spring, but the southern jet didn't play along thanks to an Omega block. So northern moisture starved clippers passed well to our north, while southern humidity wasn't funneling in over us.
The fact of the matter is that the block is gone. The southern jet is arriving to our latitude. Look outside now. Cloud cover. Wet air. Flow from the south or southwest instead of the NW. A pattern change is in store. As it gets close, the jets are back together again and battling it out. We may get a few phasing storms with both jets in play over the next week or two. Cool light or moderate rain all day type soakers. Big green blobs on the radar moving on through. Like what's predicted for this Sunday.
As the southern jet passes us and goes to our north we'll get in more of a late spring pattern. Warm fronts, followed by a day or three of muggy, pop-up t-storm weather with light winds from the south, punctuated by cold fronts oriented either N/S or NE/SW associated with lines of stronger storms, which will usher in cooler, drier air for a day or two, followed by another warm front. Generally shorter duration, but heavier downpour type situation.
Later in summer, if that southern jet gets too far north, the air will still have the heat for storms, but the southern jet will be too removed from the Gulf of Mexico to bring enough moisture. That's what I worry about every year in terms of trout survival. Need the southern jet to calm down by then, so that it can less progressive, and get all curvy and dip down south now and then.
