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AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
257 PM EST MON NOV 23 2009

.SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT/...

STRATUS CONTG TO ERODE OVER NWRN PORTION OF CWA WITH STRATO/ALTO
CU PERSISTING ACROSS THE SE AND CLEAR SLOT IN BTWN. EXPECT
CLEARING OF STRATUS WILL CONT ACROSS THE NW THIS EVE WITH HIGHER
CLOUD DECK ACROSS THE SE PORTION OF CWA LIFTING NE AHEAD OF WK
SHRTWV SEEN LIFTING NE THROUGH SWRN INDIANA ON WATER VAPOR ATTM.
LITTLE MEASURABLE PRECIP AHEAD OF SHRTWV TODAY AND WITH LITTLE CHG
IN MOISTURE/FORCING AS IT MOVES THROUGH OUR AREA THIS EVE...
SCALED BACK LOW CHC SHOWERS TO CHC SPRINKLES ACROSS ERN PORTION OF
CWA. WITH LOW LEVELS REMAINING MOIST AND LIGHT WINDS AND SOME
PERIODS OF CLEAR SKIES EXPECTED OVERNIGHT, STRATUS AND PATCHY
DENSE FOG SHOULD DEVELOP AFTER MIDNIGHT AND LINGER INTO TUESDAY
MORNING. LOW LEVEL MOIST ADVECTION AHEAD OF LOW WHICH WILL MOVE
EAST TO THE MID MS VALLEY TOMORROW, SHOULD CAUSE STRATUS TO
PERSIST THROUGH THE DAY. WITH SOME DECENT RADIATIONAL COOLING
TONIGHT, LEANED TOWARD COOLER MET MOS GUIDANCE FOR LOWS. GOING
HIGHS FOR TUESDAY STILL LOOK REASONABLE AS LOW LEVEL WAA AND
INCREASING GRADIENT/MIXING EXPECTED TO ALLOW HIGHS IN THE L-M50S
ACROSS THE AREA DESPITE CLOUD COVER.

MS VALLEY LOW WILL MOVE NE TO CENTRAL LAKE MICHIGAN BY WED MORNING
WITH ACCOMPANYING CDFNT SWEEPING EAST INTO SE MI/WRN OH BY THAT
TIME. ALTHOUGH GULF REMAINS SHUT OFF AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM, A LOW
LEVEL THETA-E RIDGE IS FCST AHEAD OF THE CDFNT ALONG WITH DECENT LOW
LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND UPR LEVEL DIVERGENCE ASSOCIATED WITH JET
STREAK TO SE OF UPR LEVEL SHRTWV... SUGGESTS GOOD POTENTIAL FOR
SHOWERS ALONG THE SYSTEM`S CDFNT... FCST LIKELY POPS SPREADING
FROM W-E ACROSS THE CWA OVERNIGHT TUE NGT. ONLY SLIGHT CHANGES
MADE TO GOING LOWS FOR TUE NGT WITH CAA EXPECTED TO ALLOW TEMPS TO
FALL TO THE L40S BY WED MORNING.

&&

.LONG TERM...
SW TROUGH OVR NE CO EMBEDDED WITHIN NRN BRANCH OF THE WESTERLIES
WILL DEEPEN CONSIDERABLY EWD SHRT TERM W/FNTL RAINBAND CROSSING AREA
TWD THE END OF THE SHRT TERM. SECONDARY SW AMPLIFYING RAPIDLY SEWD
WED WILL SPURN DEEP N`EASTER DVLPMNT ALG THE NEW ENGLAND COAST AND
BRING ABOUT A BRIEF BUT CHILLY BOUT OF COLD AIR HERE BFR MODERATING SOMEWHAT
NXT WEEKEND AS SHRT AMPLITUDE RIDGING BLDS IN WAKE OF SYS AHD OF
RENEWED DEEP TROUGH DVLPMNT INTO THE SRN ROCKIES.

LACK OF A SIG RTN LL MSTR PLUME OF THE GOMEX AHD OF LEAD SYS
PRECLUDES GOING ANY HIGHER W/POPS WED-THU NIGHT W/H7/5 LOW TRACK OVERTOP
CWA AND POINTING TO GREATER DEEP LYR ASCENT PASSING WELL N/NW. HWVR
COLD POCKET ALOFT AND VEERING LL FLW OF LK MI SHLD PROMOTE A FAIRLY
BROAD NW-SE ORIENTED RAINBAND THU AFTN/THU NIGHT ON BACKSIDE OF
CLOSING SECONDARY SYS. AGAIN THOUGH TEMPS MARGINAL FOR SNOW AND DO
NOT XPC ANY ACCUMULATION TO SPEAK OF.

OTHERWISE CHILLY TEMPS FOR MUCH OF THE PD.

&&

.AVIATION/18Z-18Z/
STRATUS SHIELD SLOWLY DISSIPATING WHILE LIFTING NW IN SELY LOW
LEVEL FLOW. EXPECT LOW CLOUDS WILL CLEAR AT SBN AROUND 19Z. MID
CLOUDS OVER SRN INDIANA EXPECTED TO LIFT NE THIS AFTN AND AFFECT
FWA WITH VFR CIGS. SKIES SHOULD CLEAR THIS EVE WITH LIGHT LOW
LEVEL FLOW AND WK CONVERGENCE ALONG A WK WARM FRONT LIFTING NORTH
ACROSS THE AREA. THIS IS EXPECTED TO RESULT IN IFR CONDITIONS DUE
TO STRATUS AND FOG DEVELOPING 06Z-12Z. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ADVECTING
INTO THE AREA AHEAD OF LOW APPROACHING FROM THE PLAINS, SHOULD
CAUSE LOW CLOUDS TO PERSIST AT LEAST THROUGH 18Z.

&&

.IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IN...NONE.
MI...NONE.
OH...NONE.
LM...NONE.
&&

$$

SHORT TERM...JT
LONG TERM...HOLSTEN
AVIATION...JT





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