Seattle, Feb. 10

Another system bringing in a chance of rain tomorrow afternoon. Cloudy skies will keep the high temperature in the upper 40's, and the low in the upper 30's. Rain showers will be moving into the region in the afternoon along with light to breezy conditions. Rainfall amounts around a quarter of an inch or less. Foggy conditions may occur in the early morning hours.

Seattle's Tuesday Forecast

A warm and dry day will greet the Emerald City for the beginning of the week. A low pressure system will form to the south near the Oregon and California coast and dive southeast. This puts Seattle in a southeasterly to northeasterly flow as the low moves further southeast and inland. With the wind shift temperatures will be a couple of degrees cooler than Monday's. Towards the end of period a short wave ridge will start to move across ahead of the next system.

A Wet Friday in Atlanta!

"Its gonna rain!" As the surface Low tracks to the East it will bring more moist air from the Gulf of Mexico into the forecast area. Rain will continue through Friday and begin to move out of the area Friday afternoon with rainfall totals between 1.5 to 3 inches. High rain totals could cause flooding problems in and around the forecast area. Winds will continue to be in the teens with gusts in the upper teens and lower 20's. Low temps will hover around 40 degrees while highs will be only a few degrees warmer than the low.

ATL--Thurdsay Forecast

Timing for thursday is critical...As the trough tracks from the SW, a gulf low is prog to form and track towards the forecast area. Associated precip is a gaurantee, with the heaviest precip occuring sometime thursday night, into friday morning. Max and min temperatures will drop a few degrees...winds are expected to be in the 20's and gusty.

Atlanta, Wednesday Feb 3

A cool, dry airmass is heading into the region for just a short time before the moisture returns. Highs will be in the mid 50's with the overnight low near freezing. Winds will be relatively light around 10 mph with some gusty conditions throughout the day. Dry tomorrow but the rain will return starting Thursday.

Forecast Discussion For Tuesday February 2nd

The period will start off with high pressure exiting off the Mid Atlantic coast and the next wave approaching the area along the Gulf Coast. Almost a repeat of last week with temperatures supporting an all rain event. With a south easterly flow ahead of the approaching system temperatures will only be a few degrees cooler with the moisture and clouds streaming in. Both the GFS and NAM have plenty of gulf moisture so expecting at about a quarter of an inch of precipitation. As the system moves off to the east winds will turn to the north allowing temperatures to drop to a few degrees above freezing and high pressure over the area.

This Week in Atlanta.

A stormy pattern is setting up for the southern US this week. A couple of Gulf of Mexico lows will move through GA this week and bringing in some soaking rain. The intensity and coverage of the precipitation will depend on the track of these systems. These lows seems to be nothing out of the ordinary WRT central pressure. The GFS has these two systems moving south of ATL on Tuesday morning and Thursday into Friday. Temperatures should remain seasonal for this week.

~Ng