We are expecting some rain midweek, which Environment Canada is blaming on a tropical storm tracking north from Louisiana.
Meteorologist Peter Kimbell tells us it’ll get weaker as it approaches, aided by warm conditions across the northwest.
“The fact that we have a warm air mass means that the flow has a northward component to it, to allow this storm to be translated up into the Lake Superior area,” explains Kimbell.
He adds it’s downgraded to a depression as it journeys, which he finds odd.
“Certainly odd that we would be speaking of it in Thunder Bay, but it is going to be pushing up through the Mississippi valley, and probably tracking along Lake Superior on Wednesday,” says the meteorologist.
While Thunder Bay will get some rain, he adds most of the storm’s residue will be further east.
“The north shore of Lake Superior, so from Marathon eastward to Wawa, is where the heaviest rain would likely be located. So, Thunder Bay would be on the western fringe, some showers, but nothing to write home about,” points out Kimbell.
The Environment Canada meteorologist adds warm air stretching from Atikokan to Dryden will help bring this weather system north. And, he says there have already been three storms this season, and is expecting a higher than normal number of storms.
