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October 8, 2020. Beau’s subscriber’s weather blog update. Not a subscriber? Go to www.weathertalk.com/welcome Once subscribed, download the WeatherTalk app in the app store

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7-day forecast for southeast Missouri, southern Illinois, western Kentucky, and western Tennessee.

This is a blend for the region.  See the detailed region by region forecast further down in this post.

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Thursday to Thursday

1.  Is lightning in the forecast?  Yes.   Lightning is possible Friday into Sunday.   A weak cold front will bring widely scattered showers and storms Monday afternoon.  Lightning can’t be ruled out.

2.  Are severe thunderstorms in the forecast?  No.

* The NWS officially defines a severe thunderstorm as a storm with 58 mph wind or greater,  1″ hail or larger,  and/or tornadoes

3.  Is flash flooding in the forecast? No.

4.  Will there be a chance of a frost or freeze?  No.

5.  Will the heat index exceed 100 degrees?  No.

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October 8, 2020
How confident am I that this days forecast will verify? High confidence
Thursday Forecast
:  Mostly sunny.  Mild.
What is the chance of precipitation? MO ~ 0%    IL ~  0%    KY ~ 0%    TN ~ 0%
Temperature range: MO Bootheel 80° to 84°    SE MO 80° to  82°    South IL  80° to 82°   Northwest KY (near Indiana border) 78° to 82°    West KY 80° to 84°    NW TN 80° to 84°
Wind direction and speed: East at 6 to 12 mph
Wind chill or heat index (feels like) temperature forecast: 78° to 84°
Coverage of precipitation: None
What impacts are anticipated from the weather? None
Should I cancel my outdoor plans? No
UV Index: 6. High.
Sunrise: 6:57 AM
Sunset: 6:28 PM
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Thursday night Forecast:  Partly cloudy.  Most likely dry.  Small chance of showers near the KY/TN border.
What is the chance of precipitation? MO ~ 0%    IL ~  0%    KY ~ 10%    TN ~ 20%
Temperature range: MO Bootheel 56° to 60°     MO  55° to 60°     South IL  55° to 60°     Northwest KY (near Indiana border) 55° to 60°    West KY 55° to 60°     NW TN 58° to 62°
Wind direction and speed: East and northeast at 4 to 8 mph.
Wind chill or heat index (feels like) temperature forecast: 55° to 62°
Coverage of precipitation:  None to isolated.
What impacts are anticipated from the weather? None for most of the area.
Should I cancel my outdoor plans? No
Moonrise: 10:49 PM
Moonset:  1:09 PM
The phase of the moon:  Waning Gibbous

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October 9, 2020
How confident am I that this days forecast will verify? Medium confidence
Friday Forecast
:  Increasing clouds from the south.  A couple of showers may push into our southern counties during the afternoon.
What is the chance of precipitation? MO ~ 10% north and 30% Bootheel    IL ~  0% north and 20% far south    KY ~ 30%    TN ~ 40%
Temperature range: MO Bootheel 80° to 84°    SE MO 78° to  82°    South IL  78° to 82°   Northwest KY (near Indiana border) 78° to 82°    West KY 78° to 82°    NW TN 76° to 80°
Wind direction and speed:  Wind becoming southeast and south at 5 to 10 mph
Wind chill or heat index (feels like) temperature forecast: 78° to 84°
Coverage of precipitation: Scattered
What impacts are anticipated from the weather? Wet roadways.
Should I cancel my outdoor plans? Monitor updates
UV Index: 6. High.
Sunrise: 6:58 AM
Sunset: 6:26 PM
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Friday night Forecast:   Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.  Chances are highest across the Missouri Bootheel into western Kentucky and northwest Tennessee.
What is the chance of precipitation? MO ~ 10% north and 30% Bootheel    IL ~  10% north and 30% far south   KY ~ 40%    TN ~ 40%
Temperature range: MO Bootheel 60° to 64°     MO  58° to 64°     South IL  58° to 64°     Northwest KY (near Indiana border) 60° to 64°    West KY 60° to 64°     NW TN 60° to 64°
Wind direction and speed: Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph
Wind chill or heat index (feels like) temperature forecast: 52° to 58°
Coverage of precipitation:  Scattered
What impacts are anticipated from the weather? Wet roadways
Should I cancel my outdoor plans? Monitor updates
Moonrise: 11:43 PM
Moonset:  2:03 PM
The phase of the moon:  Last Quarter

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October 10, 2020
How confident am I that this days forecast will verify? Medium Confidence
Saturday Forecast
:  Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms.  Coverage will be higher across our southern counties vs our northern counties.
What is the chance of precipitation? MO ~ 30% far north. 60% Bootheel   IL ~  20% far north and 50% far south    KY ~ 50%    TN ~ 70%
Temperature range: MO Bootheel 72° to 75°    SE MO 74° to  76°    South IL  74° to 76°   Northwest KY (near Indiana border) 74° to 75°    West KY 72° to 75°    NW TN 72° to 75°
Wind direction and speed: Northeast and east at 7 to 14 mph and gusty
Wind chill or heat index (feels like) temperature forecast: 70° to 76°
Coverage of precipitation:  Isolated north and more numerous far south
What impacts are anticipated from the weather? Wet roadways. Lightning.
Should I cancel my outdoor plans? Monitor updates
UV Index: 4. Moderate
Sunrise: 6:59 AM
Sunset: 6:25 PM
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Saturday night Forecast:   Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms.  Breezy.
What is the chance of precipitation? MO ~ 70% Bootheel tapering to 20% far north    IL ~  60% far south 20% north    KY ~ 60%    TN ~ 70%
Temperature range: MO Bootheel 60° to 64°     MO  56° to 60°     South IL  56° to 58°     Northwest KY (near Indiana border) 56° to 60°    West KY 56° to 58°     NW TN 60° to 64°
Wind direction and speed: East and northeast at 15 to 20 mph and gusty.
Wind chill or heat index (feels like) temperature forecast: 56° to 62°
Coverage of precipitation:  Numerous far south and isolated north
What impacts are anticipated from the weather? Wet roadways and lightning.
Should I cancel my outdoor plans? Monitor updates
Moonrise: 6:00 PM
Moonset:  2:54 PM
The phase of the moon:  Waning Crescent

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October 11, 2020
How confident am I that this days forecast will verify? Medium confidence
Sunday Forecast:  Mostly cloudy. Breezy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms.  Coverage will be higher across our southern counties vs northern counties.
What is the chance of precipitation? MO ~ 10% north and 40% far south    IL ~  10% north and 40% far south    KY ~ 50%    TN ~ 50%
Temperature range: MO Bootheel 76° to 80°    SE MO 74° to  78°    South IL  74° to 78°   Northwest KY (near Indiana border) 74° to 78°    West KY 73° to 76°    NW TN 73° to 76°
Wind direction and speed: East and southeast wind at 10 to 20 mph.
Wind chill or heat index (feels like) temperature forecast: 72° to 76°
Coverage of precipitation: Scattered
What impacts are anticipated from the weather? Wet roadways.  Lightning.
Should I cancel my outdoor plans? Have a plan B in areas with higher rain chances.
UV Index: 4. Moderate.
Sunrise: 7:00AM
Sunset: 6:23 PM
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Sunday night Forecast:   Decreasing clouds. A slight chance of showers.
What is the chance of precipitation? MO ~ 10%    IL ~  10%    KY ~ 20%    TN ~ 20%
Temperature range: MO Bootheel 55° to 60°     MO  55° to 60°     South IL  55° to 60°     Northwest KY (near Indiana border) 55° to 60°    West KY 55° to 60°     NW TN 56° to 60°
Wind direction and speed: East and northeast wind 7 to 14 mph.
Wind chill or heat index (feels like) temperature forecast: 54° to 58°
Coverage of precipitation:  Isolated
What impacts are anticipated from the weather? Isolated wet roadways.
Should I cancel my outdoor plans? No, but check radars.
Moonrise: 12:45 AM
Moonset:  3:39 PM
The phase of the moon:  Waning Crescent

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October 12, 2020
How confident am I that this days forecast will verify? Medium Confidence
Monday Forecast
:  A few clouds.  Mild temperatures.  A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms along a weak cold front.
What is the chance of precipitation? MO ~ 20%    IL ~  20%    KY ~ 20%    TN ~ 20%
Temperature range: MO Bootheel 75° to 80°    SE MO 75° to  80°    South IL  75° to 80°   Northwest KY (near Indiana border) 74° to 78°    West KY 75° to 80°    NW TN 75° to 80°
Wind direction and speed: South and southwest wind 8 to 16 mph.  Gusty.
Wind chill or heat index (feels like) temperature forecast: 75° to 80°
Coverage of precipitation: Widely scattered
What impacts are anticipated from the weather? A few wet roadways and lightning.
Should I cancel my outdoor plans? No, but check radars
UV Index: 5. Moderate
Sunrise: 7:01AM
Sunset: 6:22 PM
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Monday night Forecast:  Partly cloudy.  A chance of a shower or thunderstorm.
What is the chance of precipitation? MO ~ 20%    IL ~  20%    KY ~ 20%    TN ~ 20%
Temperature range: MO Bootheel 56° to 62°     MO  55° to 60°     South IL  55° to 58°     Northwest KY (near Indiana border) 55° to 60°    West KY 55° to 60°     NW TN 56° to 62°
Wind direction and speed: Southwest at 5 to 10 mph.
Wind chill or heat index (feels like) temperature forecast: 56° to 62°
Coverage of precipitation: Scattered
What impacts are anticipated from the weather? Wet roadways. Lightning.
Should I cancel my outdoor plans? No, but check radars.
Moonrise: 1:51 AM
Moonset:  4:20 PM
The phase of the moon:  Waning Crescent

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What is the UV index?

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  1.  Monitoring Hurricane Delta
  2.  Rain is the concern and gusty wind.

 

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Graphic-cast

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Illinois

During active weather check my handwritten forecast towards the top of the page.

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Kentucky

During active weather check my handwritten forecast towards the top of the page.


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Tennessee

During active weather check my handwritten forecast towards the top of the page.


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Today through October 15th:  Severe weather is not a concern.

 

Today’s outlook (below).

Light green is where thunderstorms may occur but should be below severe levels.

Dark green is a level one risk. Yellow is a level two risk. Orange is a level three (enhanced) risk. Red is a level four (moderate) risk. Pink is a level five (high) risk.

One is the lowest risk. Five is the highest risk.

A severe storm is one that produces 58 mph wind or higher, quarter size hail, and/or a tornado.

The tan states are simply a region that SPC outlined on this particular map.  Just ignore that.

The black outline is our local area.

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Tomorrow’s severe weather outlook.

 

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The images below are from the WPC.  Their totals are a bit lower than our current forecast.  I wanted to show you the comparison.

24-hour precipitation outlook.
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48-hour precipitation outlook.
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72-hour precipitation outlook.
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Weather advice:

Updated October 8th

Rain will push in from the south Friday into the weekend.  This will be the remnants of major Hurricane Delta.

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Weather Discussion

 

    1.   Mild days.  Cool nights.
    2.   Rain chances begin to increase for the weekend.
    3.   Hurricane Delta

Our weather has been so nice lately!  Yes, some of us do need rain.  Fields are dry and there have been a few fires.  Other than that, the weather has been great.  Nice days and nice nights.

Hurricane Delta continues to churn through the Gulf of Mexico.  This is the primary national weather story.

The system would move ashore late tonight into Friday afternoon.  It will then track north northeast into the Tennessee Valley.  Weakening as it pushes further and further into the Tennessee Valley.

A few showers will enter the Missouri Bootheel and western Tennessee Friday afternoon and evening.

Rain will then spread northeast into our region Friday night into Sunday.

There will be a SHARP cut-off in rain totals.  Ste Genevieve County, Missouri, eastward into White and Wabash Counties in southern Illinois may see little in the rain of measurable rainfall.  The Missouri Bootheel into western Kentucky/northwest Tennessee should pick up a general one to two inches of rain will pockets of higher totals likelyl.

Some gusty winds will accompany the system.  Wind damage appears unlikely.  Tornadoes should remain to our south.

All in all, we need this rain.

Model guidance has come into general uniformity with the timing of the system.  The bulk of the rain will occur Saturday/Saturday night into Sunday morning.

The rain will end west to east Sunday afternoon and evening.

A weak cold front will move through the retion Monday afternoon and evening.  A couple of showers will form along that front.  Perhaps a thunderstorm.   The front has sped up a bit.  It was forecast to arrive Tuesday afternoon.

Notice the sharp cut-off in rain totals from northwest to southeast.

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Here it eh NWS Paducah rain totals forecast.

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Again, as a reminder, these are models. They are never 100% accurate. Take the general idea from them.

What should I take from these?

  1. The general idea and not specifics. Models usually do well with the generalities.
  2. The time-stamp is located in the upper left corner.

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What am I looking at? 
You are looking at different models.  Meteorologists use many different models to forecast the weather.  All models are wrong.  Some are more wrong than others.  Meteorologists have to make a forecast based on the guidance/models.

I show you these so you can see what the different models are showing as far as precipitation.  If most of the models agree, then the confidence in the final weather forecast increases.

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This animation is the Hrrr model.

This animation shows you what radar might look like as the next system pulls through the region.  It is a future-cast radar.

Green is rain.  Blue is snow.  Pink and red represent sleet and freezing rain.

Time-stamp upper left.  Click the animation to enlarge it.

 

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This animation is the SPC WRF model.

This animation shows you what radar might look like as the next system pulls through the region.  It is a future-cast radar.

 

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This animation is the 3K American Model.

This animation shows you what radar might look like as the next system pulls through the region.  It is a future-cast radar.

Time-stamp upper left.  Click the animation to enlarge it.

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This next animation is the NAM American Model.

This animation shows you what radar might look like as the system pulls through the region.  It is a future-cast radar.

Time-stamp upper left.  Click the animation to enlarge it.

 

This next animation is the GFS American Model.

This animation shows you what radar might look like as the system pulls through the region.  It is a future-cast radar.

Time-stamp upper left.  Click the animation to enlarge it.

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This next animation is the EC model.

This animation shows you what radar might look like as the system pulls through the region.  It is a future-cast radar.

Time-stamp upper left.  Click the animation to enlarge it.

 

 


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Average high temperatures for this time of the year are around 74 degrees.

Average low temperatures for this time of the year are around 49 degrees.

Average precipitation during this time period ranges from 0.85″ to 1.20″

Yellow and orange colors are above average temperatures.  Red is much above average.  Light blue and blue are below-average temperatures.  Green to purple colors represents much below-average temperatures.

This outlook covers  October 9th through October 15th

Click on the image to expand it.

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The precipitation forecast is PERCENT OF AVERAGE. Brown is below average. Green is above average. Blue is much above average.

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Average high temperatures for this time of the year are around 73 degrees

Average low temperatures for this time of the year are around 48 degrees

Average precipitation during this time period ranges from 0.85″ to 1.10″
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This outlook covers  October 16th through October 22nd

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The precipitation forecast is PERCENT OF AVERAGE. For example, if your average rainfall is 1.00″ and the graphic shows 25%, then that would mean 0.25″ of rain is anticipated.

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THIS IS UPDATED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
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Outlook definitions
EC = Equal chances of above or below average
BN= Below average
M/BN = Much below average
AN = Above average
M/AN = Much above average
E/AN = Extremely above average
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Average high temperatures for this time of the year are around 67 degrees
Average low temperatures for this time of the year are around 45 degrees

Average precipitation during this time period ranges from 1.65″ to 1.80″

This outlook covers October 23rd through November 5th

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Precipitation outlook

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LONG RANGE DISCUSSION

Key Points: This was written by the BAMwx team. I don’t edit it.

Click to enlarge all of the images below

These graphics are updated Monday through Friday between 8:30 AM and 9:30 AM.

NOTE: These may not be updated on Saturday and Sunday.

Click the image below to enlarge it.

Updated after 9:30.  Check back.

 

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Fall Outlook

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September Temperature Outlook (prelim)

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September Precipitation Outlook (prelim)

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The October Outlook has been posted.

Temperatures

AN means above average temperatures.

 

Precipitation

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November Temperature Outlook
M/AN means much above normal (above average)

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November Precipitation Outlook
BN means below normal (below average)

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December through February Temperature Outlook (preliminary)

December through February Precipitation Outlook (preliminary)

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E/BN extremely below normal.
M/BN is much below normal
EC  equal chances
AN above normal
M/AN much above normal
E/AN extremely above normal.

December Temperature and Precipitation Preliminary outlook.

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E/BN extremely below normal.
M/BN is much below normal
EC  equal chances
AN above normal
M/AN much above normal
E/AN extremely above normal.

January Temperature Outlook (preliminary)

January Precipitation Outlook (preliminary)

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E/BN extremely below normal.
M/BN is much below normal
EC  equal chances
AN above normal
M/AN much above normal
E/AN extremely above normal.

February Temperature Outlook (preliminary)

February Precipitation Outlook (preliminary)

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