After a cold start to the day – warmer weather is on the way.
A nice day is in store for Denton as high temperatures should make it into the mid 60s with fair skies. The winds won’t be too bad today, but tomorrow will be a different story. Tomorrow looks to be another High Fire Danger day. Humidity will be low in the afternoon and winds will be very gusty.
Want to learn a little meteorology? Then read on...
I’ve put together a map below to show what conditions you can look for that make for windy times in North Texas. I know the map looks a bit busy, but here is an explanation that should help you understand what it’s depicting. This is a forecast map that is valid for noon on Thursday.
We have an area of low pressure developing on the east side of the Rocky Mountains and we have a relatively strong area of high pressure centered over the Florida panhandle and southwestern Georgia. The high is not moving eastward very quickly and the low pressure area to the west will be moving towards us. This will put North Texas in a squeeze between the two. The blue lines on this map are called isobars. That is a fancy word for a line that connects points that have the same barometric pressure. If the lines are close together then the wind speeds are higher. The winds blow in a clockwise fashion around an area of high pressure and counterclockwise around areas of low pressure. In this case you can see by the orange arrow that the winds will be coming out of the south-southwest here in North Texas. And since the isobars are close together in our area that means that the winds will be strong.
Anyway I hope that you might have learned a little bit of basic weather.
The base map is provided courtesy of NOAA/National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. The annotations by me are provided by WeatherToGolf,LLC.
FYI: The TML weather station is currently down for a hardware/software upgrade, but you can still check out WeatherToGolf for current temps and radar.
Denton area radar and area temps courtesy of WeatherToGolf.Com
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