A Look At The Weekend

Each Wednesday I look ahead to, what in my opinion, is the best part of a week - The Weekend!  It is not that I do not like my job, truthfully after nearly 35 years in TV I still like each and every day. It is that weekends are the time to kick back and enjoy the parts of life we do not have time for the other 5 days.

The coming weekend is a bit of a question mark.  The GFS (global forecast system) or what I often call on the air the "American Model" to distinguish it from the European Model and the Canadian Model.

The American Model from this morning (12z or 7am EST run) had the FOX19 viewing area on the northern edge of precipitation  from a storm that will cross Georgia into the Carolinas Sunday. The European and the Canadian both had the storm farther south and the precipitation shield smaller resulting in a dry weekend.

The midday run of the American Model (18z or 1PM EST) pushed the rain shield to Lake Erie Saturday and had it moving out of the tristate early Sunday.

In my experience the European and Canadian models often play "catch up" with the American, not always but much of the time.  So even though the score is 2 dry models to 1 wet model I am leaning towards some light rain or sprinkles for Saturday.  Also we have a saying that "the trend is your friend", meaning as the day gets closer the models begin to zero in on what will really happen.  The  trend in the American model is for wet weather over the weekend.

Before I am convinced I want to see a few more runs but right now (Wednesday evening) I am leaning towards some rain.

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