The Ridge Dominates

There aren't many signs of it flattening out or weakening for awhile at this point...

In our last post, we talked about how there were some signs the ridge parked over the central U.S. might flatten out and shift west some by mid-July bringing reasonable severe weather chances to the Plains again — but models are converging on a scenario that really isn’t that.

The mid-level jet stream forecast by the European model for July 19.

Overall the ridge looks to remain in place across the central U.S. with the typical sinking air and extremely hot temperatures the dominant weather feature. While this storm chaser is wanting to chase some more supercells this summer, I’m not quite ready to make a 14 hour drive north to do so!