As detailed last week, here is the explanation of the involvement of wind in our local weather patterns and how this factor has made our weather hard to predict at best. This is a rough generalization of patterns typically seen this season.

On the first day of the four-day pattern, we have rain as the wind picks up warmer air and moisture from the Gulf. Behind the front line, the wind is gusting from the northwest then switches to the north.

On the second day of the pattern, as the front line moves towards the east, skies stay clear and North wind switches to the northeast and then due east.

On the third day of the pattern, as the front line moves past us to the east, the wind dies down temporarily before the next cold front in sequence from the west begins to have its impact.

The next front comes in with easterly winds that gradually shift to the Southeast, picking up moisture from the Gulf once again and creating cloudy conditions. As this wind switches to the South and then South West, the rising moisture levels once again bring rain, beginning the cycle anew.