Weather To Be Quiet To Close 2007

6:30am - I’ve put together the top five weather stories for Jackson/West TN and will be putting them on my website (www.jacksonweather.net) on Tuesday.  It will include some photos as well.  Feel free to comment on your guesses in order from 1 to 5!  Sorry, won’t be giving away a car or anything if you get it right .      To the weather….

As of 6:00am, satellite images and surface reports over West TN indicated only high clouds over the region.  Temperatures were in the 20s and 30s with very little wind if any.   High pressure is building over the area and it will be good to see some sunshine today!!  Regional radars showing the closest rain over SE-AL.

The final weekend of 2007 will a little warmer than average (Hi: 48/ Lo:30).  High pressure will shift east during the weekend as the weather pattern gets ready to transition into a deep trough over the east which will open the door to the North Pole and let polar air surge south.  Here’s how that should play out:

• Monday proves to be a decent day as high pressure over the southeast delivers us a partly sunny day and maybe some isolated afternoon showers and high temperatures in the mid-upper 50s.
• The polar cold front will arrive Monday evening.  NOTE: folks heading out to watch night services or New Year’s Eve parties will notice a stark difference when they leave their particular event than when they arrived.  Temperatures overnight New Year’s Eve/New Year’s morning will bottom out around 30. 
• As mentioned in a previous post, temperatures will be struggling on Tuesday.  Cold air advection and winds of 15-25 mph will just not let the mercury rise much – 35 tops!  That’ll shake our boots. Plus, snow flurries will be flying!
• Tuesday night and Wednesday the cold air will continue its grip.  After overnight lows in the teens. Highs again on Wednesday will struggle to get above the freezing mark – 35 again.
• Thursday night will be the coldest night as the high passes overhead.  Lows in the teens will be common again. 

This cold air will moderate quickly because, again, the weather systems across N. America are progressive so the first weekend of 2008 will likely see temperatures above average once again.