Yikes!!

All I can suggest today would be to stay inside! I realize for most of us thats not entirely possible but just thought Id throw that out there. Its looking very very wet today with some heavy rain likely. You can check out how much rain we are expecting in the graphic below.

The heavy rain is being caused by the warm air advection ahead of the system thats off to our south. The picture below is an image from 7am this morning of the 850mb level or about 5000 feet above the surface. The red and blue lines on the map indicate temperature lines, the red are in degrees celsius above zero and the blue are in degrees celsius below zero. where you see the lines get really close together and the wind barbs are showing the winds going perpendicular to the temperature lines, thats warm air advection. The faster the winds, the stronger the warm air advection and the stronger the uplift to produce rainfall.

Now, you need a few more components to get rainfall of this magnitude, but that is the key component. Looks like most of the strong warm air advection will end this evening but expect some light showers to persist through at least tomorrow afternoon.

~KDLT Meteorologist Cody Matz