Monday, April 22, 2024

Day 13 of Tulsa, OK (KTUL)

Despite clear skies tonight, strong southerly winds and weak warm advection will prevent much radiational cooling. Winds will weaken during the day tomorrow (except an initial boost of winds in the morning due to the sunshine mixing down strong winds from aloft) as a weak cold front approaches. It will initially still be sunny tomorrow through at least early afternoon. As the weak cold front approaches, winds will shift to southwesterly, allowing for more of a downslope component to the wind, leading to hotter temperatures, perhaps in the hottest zone sandwiched between non-downsloped areas to the south and cooler areas to the north behind the cold front. How hot it gets depends on how soon the afternoon clouds come and how thick they are. Most likely, the clouds will be scattered to broken and only lower the high by 1-2F, if even that. With the dry air in place and the front weakening and becoming more diffuse, no rain is expected to accompany the frontal passage in the evening. Light northeasterly winds will follow behind the front.
 
Source: PivotalWeather

 

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