Friday, October 2, 2009

October is usually dry but...

Early this morning the whole Pine Belt experienced the frontal passage. A cold front sweeped through the region deliverying about 0.50" for most of us. Here at WDAM-TV we received 0.61".

Our main weather story going into the first week in October will revolve around comparing October, normally the driest month of the year, to an unusually wet forecast. Our weather setup will have a strong pull of moisture with enough uplift to produce rainfall. Believe it or not, Tropical Storm Olaf near the Baja of California will contribute a moisture flow all the way into our area. Also the flow from the Gulf of Mexico will pump more moisture towards us. So combine these two mechanisms along with a "troughy" setup and we will have rain. Sunday will be the start to this deliverance of moisture with cloudy and wet conditions.

So much for a dry October...

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