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Old 06-12-2008, 12:22 PM   #4
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Per NWS forecast discussion today, looks like they are currently in agreement with what I said yesterday. GFS-MRF brings us an upper level trough which will provide cool and unsettled weather for most of next week (similar to what we had most of the second half of May and the first few days of this month.) ECMWF gets rid of the trough at midweek which is a more hopeful outlook.

Both are in agreement on trough for the first half of the week. This pattern would be kind of fall-like with a general NW flow out of Canada, "self-defeating sunshine" where each day starts off sunny but the heating of each day builds clouds that produce showers in the afternoon and dissipate after sunset.

That kind of weather produces a lot of contradicting terms in the automatically worded local forecasts from the NWS. If that frustrates you, I added the county forecasts to the "local forecast" page of the weathercenter site. As far as I know, the county forecasts are still worded by humans. The location-specific forecasts are worded by computers. Humans make their forecasts as maps of the whole region and save those maps to the computer system. The computers translate those maps into worded forecasts for each point within the map area.
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