Enjoy the Dry Weather This Week (05-09-2011)

Just a very quick update to let everyone know that this blocking pattern that we're in is keeping the rain just out to our west.  The map below shows the accumulated precip through Saturday morning....note the lack of shading here in SE PA. It is unfortunate that much of the rainfall this week will fall on the already saturated ground of the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys and the water will add more insult to the devastating floods in the lower Miss Valley!

 But also just to let you know that once Saturday rolls around, rain should be falling in earnest by midday and although it is just a bit too far into the misty distant future, once the precip begins, a prolonged period of cool, damp weather will be in the cards for our region.  The graphic below is the 6-10 forecast from Climate Prediction Center of NOAA.

I was informed that my notifications to some of you are getting "Barracuded"!  Not sure what to say....maybe it is a conspiracy to keep my wx opinions from being used in a persistent and a pervasive manner to the regular weather folk....like the terminology....eh?  Or the e-mail program doesn't see eye to eye with g-mail.  Either way....just look at the "Blogger" site to see if my life has remained in the doldrums and I really don't have a life outside of weather and school!  Or, put my e-mail address on the "safe" list....if you are so inclined to do so.

By the way, by placing that vehicle above, it reminded me to inform everyone to support "One-Drop-Jere" and his tennis teams' car wash this Saturday!

Have a good Tuesday!

Smitty

AA:  Nice precip free week followed by rain arriving just in time for the week end and it will last into the middle of next week!