Friday September 9 2022 Forecast (7:28AM)

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High pressure drifts over our area today into Saturday then sinks to the south during the remainder of the weekend, providing fair weather and a warming trend. We won’t have a deep blue sky in this set-up this time, as high altitude smoke from western US wildfires will be over our area. However, this can make for interesting coloring especially near sunrises and sunset times, and will also impact the moon’s look (full Harvest Moon tonight). In addition, Hurricane Earl, having passed east of Bermuda, will be churning north to northeast across the open Atlantic, but will stir up rough surf and large swells which will impact our coastline through the weekend. Early next week, a trough and frontal system arrive from the west with unsettled weather later Monday through Tuesday.

TODAY: Sun, filtered at times by high altitude smoke. Highs 73-80, coolest coast. Wind NE up to 10 MPH.

TONIGHT: Clear, but full moon filtered by high altitude smoke. Patchy ground fog forming over lower elevations. Lows 52-59. Wind variable under 10 MPH.

SATURDAY: Filtered sun – high altitude smoke. Highs 76-83, coolest coast. Wind variable up to 10 MPH with coastal sea breezes.

SATURDAY NIGHT: High altitude smoke otherwise clear. Patchy ground fog in lower elevations. Lows 54-61. Wind variable under 10 MPH.

SUNDAY: Sun filtered through high clouds and high altitude smoke. Highs 77–84, coolest South Coast. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 56-63. Dew Wind SW up to 10 MPH.

MONDAY: Partly sunny. Chance of showers in the afternoon, favoring western areas. Highs 75-82. Dew point near 60. Wind SW-S 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers. Patchy fog. Lows 60-67. Wind S to variable up to 10 MPH.

TUESDAY: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers. Highs 70-77. Wind variable 5-15 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (SEPTEMBER 14-18)

Departing low pressure trough may still cause a passing shower September 14, otherwise high pressure re-takes control of the weather with fair weather and near to eventually above normal temperatures again.

DAYS 11-15 (SEPTEMBER 19-23)

A shower threat may come early in the period with a frontal boundary nearby, then high pressure should take over with mainly dry and seasonable to warm weather as summer draws to a close and autumn arrives (equinox evening of September 22).

43 thoughts on “Friday September 9 2022 Forecast (7:28AM)”

  5. Thank you, TK.

    Down to 52 last night and still 58. This may be the slowest warmup this summer. Awesome weather!

  10. Thanks TK.

    Too bad those western fires are going to mess up our what would be deep blue skies. I am not a fan of a smoky sky, sunrise or sunset.

    Here is a fact: 90% of all wildfires are caused by HUMANS! It was a PSA I heard on the radio one early morning.

    1. My BIL said that crazies who like to start fires are particularly active during heat waves. As of a couple of days ago, he said so far so good with the unprecedented heat they have been having.

  12. Thanks, TK.

    We have smelled smoke outside for some time now – 1 or 2 wks. Causing us allergies. Even with windows closed, too. Air conditioner helps a little but with cooler weather I like to open windows. Lots of trees around our home. Wonder if leaves on trees capture smoke even if not much smoke in general area?

    1. Hi Rainshine. We have not smelled smoke but allergies are crazy. And I’m crazy enough to keep windows open and then complain because my allergies are driving me nuts.

    1. Before looking at this, I would have bet any amount of money
      that it would be purple haze. 🙂 🙂 Good choice.

  16. 12z GFS ….. in the long range, offers some generalized unsettled weather in the northern Caribbean. Creates a strong tropical system that moves west through the Bay of Campeche, but with an unsettled area of weather left behind to its east.

    Hints of further spin trying to develop.

    I figure at some point, conditions will become more favorable to develop something in the Caribbean west of Jamaica.

      1. It “may” mean NOTHING for us. Who knows. It is already Sept. 9th. The peak of hurricane season is tomorrow. It’s all down hill from there, although it does NOT mean nothing will happen. 🙂

        1. Gloria was Sept. 27th.

          Not sure of the date of the latest in season hurricane to strike SNE. It may very well be Gloria, I just do not know.

          1. I found this, but who knows what it really was.

            November 1, 1778 – A possible late-season hurricane struck Cape Cod, Massachusetts, killing between 50 and 70 people. Twenty-three of these deaths are believed to be attributed to HMS Somerset III, a British ship which ran aground on Cape Cod during this storm.

            1. Officially, the latest hurricane landfall was on October 10, 1894. After making landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a Category 3, the storm re-emerged off the coast near Virginia Beach as a tropical storm, regained hurricane status, and made landfall in eastern Long Island late that morning with winds of 75 mph. It crossed the Sound, made a 3rd landfall near Old Saybrook, CT, then passed very close to Worcester and Nashua as a tropical storm before being declared extratropical in western Maine that evening.

              Winds gusts to 73 mph at Block Island, 52 mph at Woods Hole, 47 mph at Nantucket, and 43 mph in Boston.

  17. It’s that time of year….

    NWUS55 KMSO 091644
    LSRMSO

    PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
    NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
    1044 AM MDT FRI SEP 9 2022

    ..TIME… …EVENT… …CITY LOCATION… …LAT.LON…
    ..DATE… ….MAG…. ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. …SOURCE….
    ..REMARKS..

    0900 AM SNOW 19 E SWAN LAKE 47.90N 113.44W
    09/09/2022 E1.0 INCH FLATHEAD MT PARK/FOREST SRVC

    SPOTTED BEAR LOOKOUT AT 7220 FEET.

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