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Cooler, drier air settles into the Corn Belt

Greg Soulje — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:30:56 +0000

On the Plains, lingering showers and thunderstorms are confined to portions of Oklahoma and northern Texas. Meanwhile, warm weather is returning to the northern Plains, following a recent period of highly beneficial rainfall.

Across the Corn Belt, scattered, generally beneficial showers are occurring in the vicinity of a cold front stretching southward from Michigan. The front separates warm, humid air in the eastern-most Corn Belt from slightly cooler, dry weather in the western Corn Belt.

In the South, Tropical Storm Alberto – a very small system – is currently centered about 100 miles east-northeast of St. Augustine, Florida, with minimal impacts on U.S. weather. Elsewhere, a few showers – not directly related to Alberto – are spreading inland across the southern Mid-Atlantic States, while beneficial rain associated with a cold front is falling in parts of the lower Mississippi Valley.

In the West, warm, dry weather prevails, except for a return to cool, showery conditions in the Pacific Northwest.

An active pattern across the upper Midwest, parts of the Plains

Greg Soulje — Wed, 23 May 2012 11:00:15 +0000

An upper trough will continue to move from the Pacific Northwest to the Upper Midwest. During its evolution, a series of disturbances aloft will work their way across the Intermountain West and into the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest. These impulses will help produce an extensive region of precipitation. Enough cold air aloft is available to produce snow at some of the highest elevations.

Ahead of the upper trough along the surface front, low-level moisture will be available to trigger numerous showers and thunderstorms over the Northern and Central Plains and into the Upper Midwest.

Hot and dry conditions will continue across the Desert Southwest and Four Corners Region.

An upper trough along the East Coast will finally begin to slowly shift north and east.

Daytime heating will continue to trigger thunderstorms over the region. Wet weather will continue over southern Florida.

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NOAA: Past 12 months were warmest Nation has experienced

Greg Soulje — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:00:52 +0000

Warmer and drier than average temperatures continued for much of the nation in April.

These temperatures, when combined with the first quarter and previous 11 months, calculate to the warmest year-to-date and 12-month periods on record for the contiguous United States.

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Fire Weather Outlook

Greg Soulje — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:00:49 +0000

For Wednesday, there is an extremely critical fire weather area for a large part of the western half of New Mexico and portions of eastern Arizona.

Other critical areas surround that and extend into portions of southern Utah, southwestern Colorado and far southwestern Texas. There is also another critical fire area to watch in parts of Santa Barbara, CA including the Santa Ynez range.

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Severe Weather Outlook

Greg Soulje — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:00:42 +0000

For Wednesday, there is a slight risk of severe thunderstorms across the central Plains, upper Midwest and portions of the Carolinas.

Tuesday, there were over 120 reports of high wind and hail, primarily scattered over the Southeast and the Dakotas.

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