SPC AC 121646
Day 2 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1046 AM CST Wed Jan 12 2022
Valid 131200Z - 141200Z
...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AREAS FORECAST...
...SUMMARY...
The risk for thunderstorms appears negligible across much of the
U.S. Thursday through Thursday night.
...Discussion...
A vigorous short wave impulse emanating from the Canadian Arctic
latitudes may contribute to the continued development of a deep
mid-level cyclone across southern Hudson and James Bays into
northern Quebec during this period. As this occurs, an associated
anomalously cold Arctic air mass may slowly advance toward portions
of the upper Great Lakes vicinity and St. Lawrence Valley. However,
much of the U.S., Thursday through Thursday night, will remain
largely under the influence of a belt of amplified westerlies
emanating from the mid-latitude Pacific.
This will continue to include large-scale ridging across the eastern
Pacific into the Canadian Prairies and U.S. Great Plains, with a
pair of embedded short wave troughs progressing through, before
digging to the lee of, the mean ridge axis. Within larger-scale
downstream troughing, an amplifying short wave trough is forecast to
rapidly dig south-southeast of the Mississippi/lower Ohio Valley
vicinity, and across the south Atlantic Seaboard by 12Z Friday.
This will be preceded by a more modest impulse accelerating east of
the Florida Peninsula early in the period, which may contribute to
significant cyclogenesis along a frontal zone over the southwestern
Atlantic. Another baroclinic zone forming closer to the southern
Mid Atlantic coast may also provide the focus for a developing low
center.
Models vary concerning this evolution, but the more substantive
impacts from this developing system, particularly in terms of
precipitation, may remain largely confined to areas well offshore.
In its wake, substantive mid-level warming and lower/mid
tropospheric drying should diminish any lingering risk for
convective development near southeast Florida coastal areas, with
generally dry and/or stable conditions prevailing across much of the
remainder of the U.S.
..Kerr.. 01/12/2022
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