LATE WEEK WARMTH
Written by: Brian Neudorff
Once we deal with the gray skies and possible showers on Tuesday we will see a nice warm-up and sunshine for the rest of the week. A nice ridge of high pressure will move in from the Plains late Wednesday. This area of high pressure will also bring in warmer air and temperatures will rise into the upper 70s to low 80s by Friday. We should have a couple of nice days with sunshine and warm weather so enjoy.
I say bring it on. We've been spoiled back in April, but I think we're all ready for those lovely 80's to return. Hopefully no big cool downs in sight after the warmup?
ReplyDeleteYou guys weren't kidding about the tricky call on the leading edge of the precip. That shield has been sitting just to our south most of the day, and now it's ever so slowly creeping up into Monroe county. I don't envy your jobs today, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteYeah today was a very close call. I expect the light rain to slowly move East this evening. Red Wings game should be ok although a little wet for the first few innings.
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ReplyDeleteHopefully this isn't too loaded of a question to answer on the blog, but I was wondering if you could explain what the MB heights mean. Especially related to talking about ridges. When they say theres going to be a 500 mb ridge, whats that mean? I know what a ridge means, i just don't understand what the significants of the mb height of it is. Also, somewhat related to that, when talking about a ridge, what does "DM" mean?
Thanks in advance.
No actually it's a GREAT question! A 500mb chart represents at what height in the atmosphere the air pressure is 500 millibars. A Decameter (DM) equals 10 meters. So 560 DM equals 5600 meters in height. We don't use feet or inches in meteorology. So a ridge at 500 mb is similar to one at the surface except when we see one up there we are focused more on gauging how that 500mb ridge will impact temperatures as well. Huge 500 mb ridges in Summer can mean big time heat spells if you're in the right position.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Scott!
ReplyDeleteSorry, just one quick follow up question to make sure I got it. I'm trying to make the connection between the DM and the MB when talking about a ridge. when you talk about a ridge that is 560 DM in height, do you mean that's where the 500mb line is bulging up to, or how high the warm air is reaching? Or is the 560 DM how thick the layer of the ridged air is? Sorry if it's a dumb question.
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