Weather It Is (Heat Advisories)

Good Afternoon:

The warm and beautiful weather will become hot and uncomfortable weather on Friday.

Temperatures along the central and southern coasts and inland to the base of the central mountains will be unseasonably hot on Friday (30 to 33 C). There will also be elevated levels of dust throughout the country. The heat will continue on Shabbat and there will be moderate dust concentrations in Tel Aviv and heavy dust concentrations south of Jerusalem to Eilat.  Forecast temperatures for the central mountains show the upper 20s, but areas like Zikron Yaakov will also have heat advisories on Shabbat (34 C).

However, a storm approaching from the west will usher in chilly air late on Shabbat with a chance of showers.  The bulk of the storm will remain to the west until Sunday evening, when rain chances will grow.

The storm will bring mostly chilly weather rather than any appreciable rain.

A ridge will should build over western Europe late next week, while a trough digs down over the central and eastern Europe.  This means that springtime temperatures of this week will remain just a memory at least into the week of Peach vacation.

Shabbat Shalom,

Barry Lynn