Hazardous Weather Potential

[Ted Jacobson]

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
452 AM EST SAT JAN 3 2009

A MOIST LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL ENTER THE REGION TUESDAY.
TEMPERATURES WILL BE COLD ENOUGH TUESDAY MORNING...FOR PRECIPITATION
TO POSSIBLY BEGIN AS A WINTRY MIX OF SNOW...SLEET...AND FREEZING
RAIN. THIS COULD LEAD TO POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS MORNING TRAVEL
CONDITIONS...BEFORE THE WINTRY MIX TRANSITIONS TO ALL RAIN DURING
IN THE DAY. MONITOR FORECAST UPDATES...AS THE DETAILS OF THIS
INCOMING SYSTEM BECOME CLEARER.
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TABULAR FORECAST FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
430 AM EST SAT JAN 3 2009

ROWS INCLUDE...
DAILY PREDOMINANT DAYTIME WEATHER 6AM-6PM
FORECAST TEMPERATURES...EARLY MORNING LOW/DAYTIME HIGH
PROBABILITY OF PRECIPITATION NIGHTTIME 6PM-6AM/DAYTIME 6AM-6PM

FCST     FCST     FCST     FCST     FCST     FCST     FCST
TODAY    SUN      MON      TUE      WED      THU      FRI
JAN 03   JAN 04   JAN 05   JAN 06   JAN 07   JAN 08   JAN 09
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PTCLDY   SHWRS    PTCLDY   RNSNOW   SNOSHWR  MOCLDY   PTCLDY
--/46    36/55    29/36    24/38    31/37    24/31    23/33
--/10    70/60    40/10    10/60    60/50    30/30    10/20

...DISCUSSION...

HIGH PRESSURE WITH DRY AND MILD CONDITIONS WILL SHIFT EAST TODAY...
ALLOWING A WARM FRONT WITH LIGHT RAIN TO MOVE NORTH INTO OUR
AREA TONIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING. THIS WILL ALSO BRING WARMER
TEMPERATURES FOR SUNDAY.

THERE MAY BE A BREAK IN THE RAIN MIDDAY SUNDAY...BEFORE A
COLD FRONT BRINGS ANOTHER BATCH OF SHOWERS LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON
INTO SUNDAY NIGHT.

MONDAY WILL BE COOL AND DRY...WITH HIGH PRESSURE BRIEFLY IN CHARGE.
A LARGE LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE NORTHWARD THROUGH THE REGION...WITH A
GOOD CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. COLDER AIR ON
THE BACK SIDE OF THE SYSTEM...WILL KEEP SNOW SHOWERS IN THE FORECAST
FOR THURSDAY.

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