It was a warm, windy day with very dry air!

With sunshine & some high clouds, winds will gust 40-50 mph Wednesday with sustained winds at 20-30 mph.  Peak winds will be in the afternoon.  It will be another warm day at 66-69.

Clouds will tend to increase & thicken in the evening, before turning to a solid overcast Wednesday night with lows of only 55-60.

Brush fire threat will not be quite as high with slightly higher dew points moving in Wednesday.  Nonetheless, with relative humidity levels at 35-40% & this kind of wind, any fire good grow pretty quickly.

A few showers & t’storms along the cold front will pass early Thursday morning, then a band of steady rain will follow BEHIND the front.  This will exit by early afternoon, followed by clearing skies.

We will likely start out at 55-60, then fall to 50-52 with the rain & hold steady at 50-55 with a brisk northwest wind Thursday.

Rainfall looks to be near 0.25-0.30″.  Isolated slightly higher amounts are possible.

With mostly sunny skies, Friday will be nice & bright, but a bit cool with highs of 44-49 & brisk winds.

Saturday looks sunny & warmer & not as blustery with highs of 50-55.  Clouds will arrive Saturday night & skies will be overcast by Sunday morning.  After a low near 37, we may rise to 43 by 7 a.m. Sunday.

It does not look like it will rain all day Sunday.  It actually looks like a wave of showers & t’storms & then its done.  Rainfall doesn’t look too impressive with 0.10-0.30″ amounts (isolated higher amounts).

A big upper ridge of warmth with dry, sinking air will move east & encompass the eastern 2/3 of the U.S. in above to well-above normal temperatures.

We may have a stretch of several days at 70-75 next week with largely dry weather after any rain Sunday (& then after early week if any rain would happen to linger).  These conditions, combined with the two light rainfalls, will make soil conducive for farm work.  From cultivation/soil finishing to anhydrous ammonia & dry fertilizer application to even fall-type chisel plowing & disking, the weather pattern favors an early start to farm work next week.

A strong storm system with April-like warmth may bring severe weather at/near St. Patrick’s Day.  Strong south winds of 25-40 mph will accompany the system.

Colder air will roar in behind the system, ending the stretch of warm, very spring-like weather.