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ACUS48 KWNS 040830
SWOD48
SPC AC 040829

Day 4-8 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0229 AM CST Wed Dec 04 2024

Valid 071200Z - 121200Z

...DISCUSSION...
After an extended period with troughing in the eastern CONUS and
ridging across the west, a pattern change is expected starting this
weekend. Ridging will start to build into the Southeast with a
series of troughs moving through the western CONUS as a more
progressive pattern evolves. As ridging builds across the Southeast,
the surface pattern will result in favorable trajectories for
significant moisture recovery across the Gulf of Mexico. Some of
this richer moisture will likely advect inland across portions of
the Gulf Coast and Southeast early next week. The inland moisture
intrusion combined with the arrival of several troughs within a
progressive pattern would suggest the potential for some severe
weather. However, there still remains uncertainty in the upper-level
pattern with an elongated, positively tilted trough from the GFS
which lacks significant cyclogenesis. In contrast, the ECMWF
eventually has a negatively tilted trough emerge from the western
trough with a surface cyclone, but it strengthens much later across
the Great Lakes with much of the mass response disconnected from the
better low-level instability.

Will continue to monitor the severe weather potential early next
week, but uncertainty remains too high to highlight any specific
periods at this time.

..Bentley.. 12/04/2024