It's been a very active day of tornadoes just about where SPC predicted they would occur. Tornado watches continue well to our north as all of the storms and showers pull away. Unless some showers develop along the weak cold front approaching tonight, we will have escaped with very little rain on the South Shore with several earlier downpours north of Lake P.
The upper energy over Iowa is also lifting away to the NE leaving the SW upper flow over us in place. That might mean the cold front will never push through SE LA/MS.
You can see the much lower dew points back to our west showing us where the good feel air is. The problem continues to be a persistent West Coast upper trough that ejects disturbances out every 3-4 days. We had one earlier this week that gave us the 5-10+" of rain with this one today triggering the tornado outbreak. The next one is gearing up to head our way on Sunday.
Notice how chilly it is over the West and Upper Great Lakes while the SE is very Spring like. There are signs that by Monday a real front will finally sweep through drying us out. For Friday & Saturday I'm hoping we'll see a few sunny breaks with a little less humid air. That will depend on this weak front staggering to our east which is not a sure thing.
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