Friday, April 21, 2023

Day 12 of Des Moines, IA (KDSM)

Clouds and cold air aloft move in sooner than expected, leading to a high of only 49F. I guess the cold outlier, HRRR, had a point. Never completely ignore the HRRR even if it is an outlier! Maximum wind is 24 kt so far, but some showers approaching will likely bring stronger winds with the gust front and up to a few hundredths of an inch of rain. Stiff northwesterly flow will advect cold air into the region but combined with mostly cloudy skies, limit true radiational cooling tonight. The same cold advection and clouds will lead to relatively limited warming tomorrow. Some breaks of sunshine will lead to temperature spikes and vertical mixing of stronger winds from aloft, especially later in the afternoon, but it will be colder than today with winds more directly out of the cold air mass source.
 
Source: PivotalWeather

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