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Weather Eye: Wondering how the blank canvas will be filled in this week

By Patrick Timm
Published: September 30, 2018, 6:00am

Imagine an artist setting up a blank canvas ready to begin creating a masterpiece. Then, not knowing what exactly to paint, they take a broad paintbrush and begin to place nondefinitive brush marks in all directions. Modern art? Maybe flashes of memories with no real outcome?

Saturday afternoon as I write my column, I kind of feel like that artist. I have no idea how to present a for-certain weather picture looking through the weather eye. We have two areas of low pressure, one to our south and another series of weak systems to our north. Kind of like a sandwich, and we are the middle. What do we place on it?

How about clouds, for sure. Then maybe how about some showers to soften the picture. Cooler temperatures to keep things from melting. And we keep that on the menu for the next week or so. Sounds like a stale sandwich to me.

So that’s the weather outlook through the upcoming week — some clouds but more dry than wet. Showers any given day are a possibility. And no more 80-degree high temperatures. Temperatures should be rather seasonal in the 65- to 70-degree range. Nice but perhaps some inconvenience with a few daunting showers or sprinkles. Still, forecast models keep the chance of measurable rainfall at 30 percent or less at this point.

Don’t believe for a second that I am a painter. Writing is my forte, and weather runs deep in my veins. So as diehard Washingtonians go about their business this week and when it begins to sprinkle, we turn our faces toward the sky and smile. Make it a good week, folks.

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