Weather It Is (A Red Sea Trough/Spring)

Good Evening:

A Red Sea trough will combine with an upper level trough to produce potentially heavy, localised rain on Wednesday.

At the moment, rain is more likely south of Tel-Aviv eastward to the Jerusalem-Hebron corridor, and south to Mitzpe Ramon.

Rain showers are expected to develop Wednesday morning in the west and and last into the evening in the eastern part of the country.

We'll try to provide more exact information about rain probabilities tomorrow morning.

Otherwise, the long range forecast is suggesting that winter may be taking a bow -- and that the final curtain will follow shortly thereafter.

Of course, the end of February is not necessarily the end of winter, but the next two weeks will definitely feel more like spring than winter.

The warm weather will be courtesy of a ridge of warm area over the eastern Mediterranean sea.  It is the eastern part of a very amplified trough/ridge couplet.  In fact, unseasonably cold air will plunge far south into western Europe in response to a very strong area of low pressure moving in off the eastern Atlantic.

For us, though, the weather will just be nice.

Barry Lynn