Ghoulish cool will rule for the remainder of October...at least if you buy into the GFS! These temps will be more like late November/early December than late October. It will be cold for sure next weekend in St. Louis when Games 3 & 4 are played in the nation's mid-section.
Again, although not always, but far more often than not, when large cyclones "re-curve" east along the Asian coast, this drives heat poleward which then displaces colder polar air southward over the central and eastern part of North American ~ 10 days into the future...and there is not only one, but 2 "re-curving" typhoons in the western Pacific...one is of real concern to Tokyo, Japan!
As for closer to home, enjoy today's temps as they will be a distant memory in the not so distant future...
Here is the same 850 mb temperature map for Friday Night Lights! That is quite the deep trough over the eastern US! There will be freezes all the way into the deep south this weekend and next week as well.
It appears that both Friday morning and Saturday morning will bring a hard freeze to the KMDT with clear skies assuming the winds go light to calm. This looks like the clearest of sky cover over the 5 days which would allow for much radiational cooling to take place prior to sunrise Friday morning.
Lake Effect snow will be flying as well in the lee of the lakes as once again, ~20ºC difference in temps between the lakes and a mile up should crank the snow guns south and east of the Great Lakes! Here is the current temps of the lakes (now that the site is up and running again!)...
OK...gotta run. Autumnal is the word for the remainder of October. And pumpkin is the choice of flavoring many of my favorites at this time of year!
Enjoy the autumnal week!
Smitty
AA: Turning much cooler...or should I say colder by Wednesday! Grass cutting coming to an end!
