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| Sunrise 7:30AM | Sunset 5:00PM | Thursday December 12, 2019 9:15 AM EST (14:15 UTC) | Moonrise 5:38PM | Moonset 7:47AM | Illumination 99% |  |
7 Day Forecast for Marine Location Near Flatwoods, WV
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Area Discussion for - Charleston WV
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AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION National Weather Service Charleston WV 626 AM EST Thu Dec 12 2019
SYNOPSIS. High pressure through early Thursday night. Mixed precipitation system late Thursday night and Friday changing to rain. Active pattern persists through the weekend and into early next week.
NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/. As of 625 AM Thursday .
No changes necessary, the forecast remains on track this morning.
As of 215 AM Thursday .
High pressure and rising heights overhead early this morning will support quiet weather for the majority of the near term period. The surface high will progress into New England through the day Thursday, encouraging low level winds to shift out of the south by the afternoon. A surface trough feature aligning along the mountains will favor breezier downslope winds after midday to around 15 mph.
A chilly night is in store tonight with the high in close proximity to the forecast area and efficient radiational cooling can take place. Temperatures at the time of this issuance had already dropped down into the low 20s, with the exception of the northeast WV mountains, who has some catching up to do now that lingering evening clouds are no longer blanketing the area. By dawn, I expect portions of southeast Ohio and the mountains to fall into the upper teens. As surface winds shift into a return flow regime during the day Thursday, we should see a decent diurnal uptick by peak heating hours, leading to max temperatures in the mid to upper 40s in the lowlands and 20s/30s for the higher terrain.
Unsettled weather sneaks in for the final few hours of the near term in the form of a low pressure system developing along the Gulf Coast Thursday evening. This feature will travel across the Mississippi Valley and eventually up the eastern seaboard for the end of the work week. Moisture feeding into Central Appalachia via return flow will promote a conglomeration of showers and associated precip types, first encroaching on our southwest Virginia Counties around midnight. A nose of warm air aloft traveling up the I-79 corridor will quickly change over subfreezing temperatures in the southern coalfields and across central West Virginia, bolstering rain showers by the morning rush hour Friday morning. Meanwhile, areas along the Ohio River Valley and West Virginia mountains undertake a wintry mix beyond the near term period.
SHORT TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/. As of 255 AM Thursday .
Shortwave over the deep south tracks northeastward into the mid Atlantic region with one surface low over the mountains, transitioning to a low further east that will push into upstate New York.
For the western lowlands, and freezing rain/snow combination should transition quickly to all rain, so any of these elements prior to all rain should be short lived. Where the cold air damming is strongest on the eastern slopes, and extended freezing rain event is likely as 925mb-sfc temps are much slower to warm to above freezing values. Transition to all rain for these areas and the highest ridges will be in the 15-18Z Friday time frame. With this transition, and inch plus of rain is possible in the mountains. Snow amounts should be negligible overall, but some flakes are possible as this system evolves and arrives in the overnight hours into Friday morning. Secondary trough aloft and northwest flow keeps precipitation chances going through the weekend in an unsettled synoptic pattern for the region.
LONG TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/. As of 255 AM Thursday .
Active pattern continues in the long term with another southern stream system moving in for the beginning of the work week. A look at the lower level temperature profile suggest another potential mixed precipitation event, but will keep the types more generic this far out. Pattern shift and colder through the middle of the week.
AVIATION /12Z THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY/. As of 625 AM Thursday .
VFR conditions prevail through majority of the day today under the influence of high pressure. Winds shift out of the south southeast by the afternoon, inflicting gusts of 15-20 kts at BKW into the evening. Clouds ease into the region tonight in advance of a weather system encroaching from the south overnight. Impacts to aviation will not be felt until Friday morning as rain and snow showers fill in further north into the area. Only site I currently have succumbing to sub-VFR conditions is BKW around 10Z Friday morning with FZRA. The bulk of flight restrictions will be included with future TAF issuances.
FORECAST CONFIDENCE AND ALTERNATE SCENARIOS THROUGH 12Z FRIDAY . FORECAST CONFIDENCE: High.
ALTERNATE SCENARIOS: Timing of showers may vary from the concluding hours of the current TAF issuance.
EXPERIMENTAL TABLE OF FLIGHT CATEGORY OBJECTIVELY SHOWS CONSISTENCY OF WFO FORECAST TO AVAILABLE MODEL INFORMATION: H = HIGH: TAF CONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL. M = MEDIUM: TAF HAS VARYING LEVEL OF CONSISTENCY WITH MODELS. L = LOW: TAF INCONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL.
DATE THU 12/12/19 UTC 1HRLY 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 EST 1HRLY 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 CRW CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H HTS CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H BKW CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H EKN CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H PKB CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H CKB CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H
AFTER 12Z FRIDAY . IFR possible in rain Friday/Friday night.
RLX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES. WV . Winter Weather Advisory from midnight tonight to 7 PM EST Friday for WVZ516-518-520-523-524. OH . None. KY . None. VA . None.
SYNOPSIS . 26/MEK NEAR TERM . MEK SHORT TERM . 26 LONG TERM . 26 AVIATION . MEK
Weather Reporting Stations
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EDIT (on/off) Help Click EDIT to display multiple airports. Follow links for more data.| Airport | Dist | Age | Wind kt | Visibility | Sky/Weather | Temp | DewPt | Humidity | Pressure |
| Elkins, Elkins-Randolph County-Jennings Randolph Field, WV | 36 mi | 24 min | N 0 | 10.00 mi | Fair | 22°F | 17°F | 82% | 1038.9 hPa |
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