The El Nino is Flexing

Monday, Jan 8, 12PM

Any drought conditions that are leftover from the region-wide dry fall are certainly going to be erased over the next week thanks to the sub tropical jet. Two major storms will impact the area over the next week beginning tomorrow, and unfortunately they are both going to be rain. 

For tomorrow, rain will develop around sunrise and become heavy in the afternoon and evening. To make a crummy day even worse, the rain will accompanied by gusty winds. Tomorrow evening looks to be the worst for both the heaviest rain and highest wind gusts with 2-3″ of rain expected by Wednesday morning and wind gusts expected to be in the 40 to as much as 50 mph range tomorrow afternoon and evening. Flood conditions and power outages are likely and the NWS has issued flood watches and high wind advisories for the entire area. Obviously, be careful when traveling tomorrow through early Wednesday.

After tomorrow’s deluge, a second storm is expected to develop late this week and take a similar track. If so, we can expect more of the same late Friday and early Saturday. Beyond that, we might finally get into a better winter pattern for the end of January and February, but it’s getting tough to stay hopeful. 

We need some snow.