Warmth Next Week All Depends on the Jet Stream

The month of April has had its ups and downs with the weather.  From summer-like warmth to snow flurries, we've had quite the extremes over the Stateline.  The end of the month will be cooler with highs over the weekend staying in the 50's, still ten degrees below average.

But by next week there are some signs that the 60's, and possibly even 70's, will return.  But the extent of the warmth depends on the just how the jet stream behaves.  As Meteorologist Kristin Cwynar explained in the previous post, the outlook for the first week of May looks a little more promising.  The jet stream will buckle over the middle of the country with warmth expanding into the Northern Plains and Canada.  That warmth gets pushed east over the Upper Great Lakes thanks to west winds during the beginning of next week.

Each day, highs will warm through the 60's possibly reaching the 70's by next Tuesday and Wednesday.  However, the 70's may be hard to achieve if the ridge of high pressure isn't quite as strong.  This could be the case as a trough of low pressure develops over the Northeast.  That trough could kink a little further west over the Western Great Lakes pulling down a slightly cooler air mass towards the middle to end of next week.

So for now, I left highs in the 60's and if the Northeast trough doesn't look too strong in the days to come we could warm those highs in the 70's.  Fingers crossed!