Thursday, November 16, 2006

Thanksgiving Break Forecast!

Well, at least the college students will have all of next week off and I know most people will get the latter half of the week off. So, how about a nice first forecast for the vacation week! Keep in mind with the forecast beings such a long range one that it will likely change somewhat, hopefully this will be a good enough rough idea to what is likely to happen over the next week.

The drive home for the college students shouldn’t be too bad, some sunshine which will allow highs ranging from near 50 in southern Iowa to the lower 40s across northern sections. Friday night should see lows drop from the upper 20s in eastern Iowa to the upper teens in northwestern Iowa. The weekend should hold highs of the lower 40s across the state on Saturday, continuing the lower 40s in the east on Sunday, while the west should see a slight warmup to the mid to maybe upper 40s. Lows during the weekend should range from the upper teens in the northwest to the upper 20s in the southeast during Saturday night. Sunday nights’ lows should be fairly uniform across the state; in the mid to upper 20s throughout.

The first half of the week should see high temperatures slowly rise. Northeastern portions of the state should see upper 40s on Monday, with near 50 in Tuesday and lower 50s by Wednesday. Southwestern portions of the state should start out in the mid 50s, slowly working their way up to near 60 by Wednesday. Other areas of the state should see temperatures within those same ranges. Lows early in the week should be somewhat uniform across the state, ranging from the lower 30s to the mid 30s.

By the time vacation time comes around for everybody, temperatures actually look as if they might fall back down a bit. Although this is a long ways out, temperatures currently look to fall a couple of degrees for Turkey day. I’ll hopefully get an update sometime early in the week next week, hope this does some good for now.

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