Chilly But Dry Conditions Into Midweek Before A Storm Moves In Wind & Rain Late Week
All of the weather action over the next couple of days will center around low pressure moving across the Deep South and then offshore. In the meantime we have a big high in Eastern Canada that is draining dry air southward, leaving much of Eastern Pennsylvania to Southern New England in no worse than partly sunny skies today. Chilly air is being re-enforced. Highs today will be in the mid to upper 50s. Then tonight will see skies clear with Monday morning lows in the low 40s along the coast and in normally warmer urban areas. 30s and 20s with frosts and freezes will be common inland.
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This high pressure cell will be the primary player for much of the week ahead. It will suppress the first low going across the South and Southeast and forcing it eastward rather than northward. Energy will dive southeastward out of Central Canada later in the week into the Ohio Valley. That will force another storm system to develop in the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys Wednesday and Thursday.
Even though we are eventually going to see an onshore low develop, we should stay dry through at least Wednesday with days that are no worse than partly sunny and nights that might eventually see some clouds develop especially by mid week. In the meantime Monday will be partly sunny and chilly. High temperatures will generally be in the low to middle 50s. The same temperature ranges hold for Tuesday. Nights will see lows in the low 40s coast and 30s and a few 20s inland and in colder more isolated locations.
Wednesday will still have that raw chill in the air with a northeast wind, more clouds than sun and highs in the low to mid 50s. The new low that forms in the Tennessee and Ohio Valley will swing into the Appalachians and a strong front will begin to lift northward late this week. We will likely see more clouds Thursday and perhaps a little light rain and drizzle, followed by more of a windswept rain and maybe a thunderstorm or two Thursday night and Friday as the low tracks northward up the Appalachians and eventually into New England. Hurricane Melissia meanwhile will be bearing down on Jamaica as possibly a category 5 hurricane and then Eastern Cuba and the Bahamas as perhaps a category 3. However from there it heads northeast with a possible pass near Bermuda and not a risk to the East Coast of the US.
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