11 states out west from Texas to California north all the way to Washington saw blistering heat this weekend. Here's how hot the western United States got today:
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| Sunday 6/30 High Temps |
This is due to a persistent, dominant ridge of high pressure. Here's a list of how hot some cities got this weekend:
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| Feelin' Hot Hot Hot! |
The jet stream--very fast winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere--divide air masses. Luckily, instead of the jet undulating and allowing the heat to get to the Midwest, the trough that is currently in the eastern United States will actually dig southward and intensify allowing for comfortable air to remain around the Stateline. But, as the trough intensifies, the low pressure system that is currently in the Tennessee River Valley will become cut off from the jet stream and drift back north. This will bring along the potential for some storms to pop up starting overnight Tuesday in to Wednesday morning and that unstable pattern will persist through the weekend. But don't cancel your 4th of July plans quite yet; again this low will only give the
potential for more storms, and at this point it looks like we'll just have isolated rain chances. - MT
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| Sunday's Jet Stream Pattern |
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| Wednesday's Jet Stream Pattern |
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