While forecasting maximum and minimum temperatures for your station or location is obviously a job for the forecaster, proper analysis of the Skew T may give the forecaster a computed value for both the expected maximum and the expected minimum temperatures. Forecasters commonly use these computed values as one of several inputs for their temperature forecast. A major limitation of both techniques that we will discuss is that they are only valid for predicting the temperature within an air mass. If a frontal passage is expected between the time of the morning sounding and the time of the expected maximum temperature that afternoon or the time of the expected minimum temperature the following morning, these techniques should not be used. Another limitation is that the forecaster should routinely forecast temperatures out to 48 hours for any location and out to 5 days for

stateside locations, while these techniques only provide predictions out to 24 hours.

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