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Winter Weather Updates to start tomorrow on November 1, 2024

More active weather pattern for the next 2-weeks as a series of troughs and storm systems tap into Gulf of Mexico moisture to inundate the central U.S. with boatloads of rain.

Watching the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico for potential tropical storm activity (Patty) with the ECMWF HRES and ensembles showing a strong signal for something to develop by next weekend. NHC is at 60% chance of development, up from 40% yesterday.

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Unfortunately the episodes of heavy rain do not really make it to the Southeast before fizzling out. Hopefully into next week, chances of rain will increase higher than 0.

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Election Day Forecast | Tuesday November 5th

Strong cold front and heavy rain in the morning on Tuesday from Michigan through St. Louis down to Houston, but it fizzles out later in the day as the front moves east.

Wisconsin and Michigan seem to be the most impacted states by weather among the \u201cswing states\u201d in the Blue Wall.

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The temperatures will be very warm up to 25\u00b0F above normal on Tuesday.

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Actual highs in the 60s in the Great Lakes and 70s in the Ohio Valley.

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ECMWF AIFS 12z | Next 10-days | Height Anomaly

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Trough after trough parade into the Western U.S. through the next 10-days with more in the pipeline. That\u2019s a very snowy and cool/cold pattern for the West.

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Atlantic Tropical Update

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60% chance of Tropical Cyclone development according to NHC in the next 7-days. That is up from 40% yesterday. The other two yellow areas are low chance but could spin-up briefly if convection persists. There are quite a few (small) swirls in the Atlantic right now.

Atlantic IR Satellite Image

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General showers scattered across the Caribbean and across the Antilles. We don\u2019t look to the coast of Africa any longer for tropical waves.

ECMWF Integrated Vapor Transport

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A new development with the ECMWF HRES 10 day forecast is the closing off of an area of low pressure along the eastern periphery of a southern Caribbean gyre. That system develops into a weak tropical storm before heading into the Gulf of Mexico where it meets hostile upper level wind shear.

However, the strong ridge across the Eastern U.S. means boatloads of moisture streaming north into the central U.S. and any tropical storm (Patty) would just add to the rainfall totals in the following week.

GFS 18z Vorticity | Next 7-days

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I can count 4 swirls that could be classified as weak tropical systems across the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean. GFS has given up on a powerful hurricane that it consistently developed over the past week.

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ECMWF EPS Forecast Active Tracks

Day 4: November 4

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A few areas of low pressure that can be tracked south of Jamaica.

Day7: November 6

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By Day 7, high probability of a named tropical cyclone (TS Patty) up to hurricane strength just east of the Yucatan Peninsula.

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Day 10: November 10

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The ECMWF 12z Control has a 997 mb low in the Gulf of Mexico. The other ensembles show some tracks continuing \u2014 including hurricanes. However, it is still highly unusual and rare to have such a powerful storm in the hostile Gulf of Mexico into mid-November.

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Still betting on a weak outcome in line with climatology, but there is a potential and plausible scenario of a powerful hurricane forming in the western Caribbean and heading WNW into the Gulf of Mexico \u2014 but the upper-level winds would be hostile.

Low Temperatures on Wednesday

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Much colder air moves into the upper-Midwest to start November.

High Temperatures on Wednesday

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Still 185 million Americans at/above 70\u00b0F to start November.

Snowfall

15-day Ensemble Median Snowfall Forecast

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Probability of 1\u201d snowfall through 15-days

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Total Rainfall next 7-Days | NOAA WPC

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Total of 5-7\u201d across OKC with large area of 2-4\u201d from Michigan to north Texas.

2-4\u201d of rain from Monday into Tuesday across the Mississippi Valley.

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WPC forecast rain for 24-hours from Monday morning to Tuesday morning

EPS | Weekly Temperature Anomaly

Week 1: October 31- November 6

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Week 2: November 7 - November 13

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Winter Weather Updates to start tomorrow on November 1, 2024

More active weather pattern for the next 2-weeks as a series of troughs and storm systems tap into Gulf of Mexico moisture to inundate the central U.S. with boatloads of rain.

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