· A pretty decent week ahead with the best days coming likely Wednesday and again Friday this week.

· Today – Monday A dry day with a couple notches of lowered humidity levels which has been daunting. A chaotic sky with variable cloud cover but also a few intervals of sun and temps topping out in the low 80s.

· A warm Front will kick in tomorrow increasing the cloud cover after a nice dry morning with hints of sun through high clouds.

· The warm front will deliver more rainfall for the region where we could use another 1 to 2” and probably more but not all at once.

· Water tables, ponds rivers and stream are rather low and the weekend rains really did not put much of a dent in what has been a pretty dry 365 days.

· No excessive heat nor cold this week – great out of doors weather for all today Wednesday and Friday.

TODAY: Clouds mixed with intervals of sunshine. A high around 80. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. (5)

TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Isolated valley fog. A low in the upper 50s to around 60. Little wind. (5)

TUESDAY: Filtered morning sun then thickening clouds in the afternoon. A rising chance for showers later in the afternoon. A high in the mid 70s. South to southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. (4)

Looking further ahead…

TUESDAY NIGHT: Cloudy with periods of rain or showers…heavy at times with a chance for thunderstorms. A low in the mid 60s. (3)

WEDNESDAY: Partly to mostly sunny. A high near 75. (3)

THURSDAY: Morning sun then increasing clouds. Chance for late afternoon showers and thunderstorms. A low in the 55 to 60. A high around 80. (2)

FRIDAY: Mostly sunny after morning fog. A low near 60. A high 75 to 80. (2)

Average lows mid to upper 50s. Normal high mid to upper 70s.

(Confidence factor: 5 = Good predictability 1 = shaky modeling lowered confidence)

RH/8-15 [end]