The 614cast
Today’s tl;dr
🌤️ Partly to mostly sunny, high in the middle 80s.
Forecast highlights
🚫 Rain? What’s that?
Rain chances are pretty paltry over the coming days. Here’s an animation from the National Blend of Models (remember yesterday’s “two heads are better than one”?) showing the chance of measurable rain in six-hour increments.
First off, I think its odds for this afternoon are too high. Regardless, you’ll see that a decent shot at rain just isn’t in the cards until next week.
For some, that’s great news after dealing with too much of it last month. For others, it’s not as exciting since free watering won’t be happening.
🌡️ Steady temps… for now
The next couple of days will look and feel pretty much like yesterday. Highs reach the mid-80s and will be accompanied by a touch of humidity under a partly to mostly sunny sky.
I expect readings will creep up going into the weekend, possibly hitting the 90-degree mark. The best chance of doing that is on Sunday.
The normal low is 65 and normal high is 85, and we should surpass those into next week.
However, nothing suggests making a deep run into the 90s, nor a big surge in dew points (although edging up near 70 wouldn’t surprise me).
📊 Today’s almanac
Normal low/high: 65 / 85
Record low/high: 48 (1948) / 102 (1918)
Sunrise/set: 6:35 a.m. / 8:39 p.m.
📖 Weather word Wednesday
All right, so this hasn’t been a weekly feature like I originally thought it might, but that’s fine because I couldn’t think of something else to do today.
While scrolling through the American Meteorological Society’s glossary page, I saw…
… cow-quaker.
Um, what? Cow-quaker???
It comes from the Midlands region of England, and is a storm system that comes in May after the cows have been moved from their winter quarters into their grassy pastures.
It turns out England has a bunch of amazing weather words.
British magazine Country Life lists additional ones. I think “blunks” is a top candidate to be borrowed… we could use it to describe the pop-up showers and storms that we sometimes experience in the summer. And it’s fun to say.
No blunks in our forecast… or hurly-burlies, for that matter.
🌭 For the weather weenies
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U.S. weather boss during ‘Sharpiegate’ nears return to a shrinking agency (Bloomberg)
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Weather Service is now hiring back hundreds of positions that got cut in the DOGE chaos (CNN)
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Dozens of wildfires burn across western U.S. (CBS News)
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“75 and a chance of asthma” (Charlie Berens/Instagram)
