Weather It Is (Stormy Weather)

 Good Evening:

1) Heavy rain/Thunderstorms along coastal areas late Wednesday morning into Wednesday Night.

2) Heavy rain/Thunderstorms in central areas and northern Negev Thursday.

3) Snow possible on the middle and upper Hermon.

4) Gusty winds throughout. 

Unusually cold air will combine with a storm moving across the eastern Mediterranean to bring us a period of inclement, stormy weather. The first heavy round of precipitation should be tonight into Wednesday.  As the cold air continues to drain southward, it will encourage additional storm development on Thursday, bringing additional heavy rain from Thursday into Friday.  Forecasts are showing a third round of precipitation later on Shabbat.

After a short break, the wintry weather should return in early December.  

An interesting tidbit: this winter our storm development has featured incursions of cold air from the north.  This means that storms are intensifying as they arrive in our area. This type of pattern is conducive to increasing our chance of a real cold air outbreak as we move into mid December.  We'll have to see if the pattern holds up beyond the first week of December.

Barry Lynn