Monday Briefing: Pleasant start, unsettled finish to the week

Happy Monday and welcome to a new week! We’re expecting calm and pleasant weather today, with transient cloud cover and seasonable temperatures. This will come as a refreshing change after an unsettled weekend and rainy Sunday. The weather pattern, however, will remain very active. Multiple storm systems will eventually impact the area this week.

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The Weekender: Unsettled weather likely this weekend

This is a crazy time of year for meteorologists. After a few months of relatively calm and simple weather, things take a complicated turn in Autumn. Storms get stronger, the jet stream gets wilder, and hours get longer. These few weeks in particular are some of the craziest, as we finalize our Winter Forecast and start to look ahead to the next few months.

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Huge ridge developing in the Gulf of Alaska, what does it mean for us?

Forecast models are in strong agreement that a large and anomalous ridge will develop in the Gulf of Alaska over the next few days. The resulting wave pattern in the atmosphere will lead to colder than normal air in the Rockies, Midwest and Plains states.

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Showers likely tonight, improving weather by Wednesday

An active and cooler weather pattern is expected to continue, with another round of showers tonight. A frontal boundary approaching the region from the west will lead to increasingly unsettled conditions as the day goes on. The heaviest rain will likely come between 7 and 9 pm, with some localized flooding possible.

Conditions are expected to improve as we go through the later part of the evening. Westerly winds will usher in cooler and drier air, with pleasant weather expected on both Wednesday and Thursday. The next chance of rain won’t arrive until later Friday and perhaps Saturday.

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