We have been seeing much warmer than normal weather across the Stateline this week with 70's for everyone. Those warm temperatures have been courtesy of warm southwesterly winds ushering in warmer than average air. However, it is unusual to string together an extended stretch of days with temperatures that far above normal in October as cold air continues to battle the warm air left over from summer. This week will obey that as the 70's are now over with a cold front moving through the region this evening.
That front will knock the temperatures back down into the middle 60's to end the week, but those temperatures are still above normal. For this time of the month, our average high is roughly 60F, so while it will be cooler to end the week, it will not be that bad.
A second system will move in Friday afternoon and Friday night, and it will bring more rainfall to the region. We could see a quarter of an inch of rain or slightly more from that system, which will continue to help alleviate the very dry conditions we've seen this month thus far. That system will drop our temperatures back to normal for Sunday before lower 60's return to begin next week.
Then, we get a third system that will move in for next Tuesday and Wednesday. This is going to bring much more rain with it as totals could eclipse the one inch mark. More importantly, even colder air will filter in behind that cold front for late next week and Halloween weekend. As it looks now, highs could be stuck in the lower 50's and possibly even the upper 40's to end next week with overnight lows in the 30's and potentially upper 20's.
So we enter an active pattern after seeing a rather quiet and stagnant pattern thus far this month.
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