Warming temperatures continue

Tonight, will stay a few degrees below normal under clear skies, but the bigger story is the dry air and the warming trend that’s already starting to kick in. Humidity levels are so low that fire weather concerns are elevated, with relative humidity expected to drop below 25% possibly even into the teens. 

Tuesday keeps the extremely dry pattern going through most of the day, though moisture will slowly begin to return by evening. Highs will run warmer than Monday, and the afternoon will bring another round of critically low humidity, bottoming out around 20–25%. We have a small chance of light rain arriving late Tuesday night, and even then, we’re talking roughly a tenth of an inch or less.

By Wednesday, the weather pattern shifts, and we move into a broad warm slot. Temperatures respond in a big way, climbing to nearly 15 degrees above normal. This will also bring some moisture into the atmosphere rising humidity levels out of the critical fire-weather range.

Thursday continues the warm theme. A complex setup aloft keeps heights high over the Southeast, which means another mostly dry day, though the chance for scattered showers will slowly creep upward. Highs will once again sit about 10–15 degrees above normal, keeping us in the “unseasonably warm” category.

As we move into Friday and the weekend, we’ll see some chances for showers, but as of now it doesn’t look impressive. Stay tuned!