Coastal Storm Brings Heavy Rain Coastal Flooding Risk Delaware to Southern New England

Coastal Storm Brings Heavy Rain Coastal Flooding Risk

Delaware to Southern New England

Coastal Storm Brings Heavy Rain Coastal Flooding Risk

Delaware to Southern New England

Another cold air mass and the second one for this week is building into the Northeast and Mid Atlantic states today. Low pressure is strengthening in New Brunswick Canada and high pressure is moving southeast from the Great Lakes so it is another day of breezy conditions. We should have a good deal of sunshine today as the instability and the upper trough move to the east. Most high temperatures today will be in the low to middle 40s across Eastern Pennsylvania to Southern New England with temperatures in the upper 40s to near 50 or so for areas from South Jersey and Southern Pennsylvania southward.

Tonight will be a very cold night and it may very well be the coldest night of the month and we are two thirds through it. Skies will be clear tonight. Winds should start to drop off and most lows will be in the upper teens to mid 20s. Friday we are looking at sunshine to start the day but clouds will arrive as the day wears on from south to north. Most highs Friday will be in the 40s.

SATELLITE WITH LIGHTNING STRIKES

WEATHER RADAR

While we sit in cold air (for this time of year) low pressure develops today in the Western Gulf of Mexico and moves eastward toward Florida. Rain spreads across the South Friday and into the Southeast with heavy rain and severe weather risks possible for Central and South Florida. The low then takes a solid left turn up the East Coast and spreads rain northward Friday night.

This low strengthens some as it heads northward and it also has a tropical feed of moisture with it and that sets up for an area of heavy rain on the northwest side of the low center. The heaviest rain will likely fall from Delaware to New Jersey northeast to Southern and Southeastern New England and much of that zone could see 2 to 3 inches of rain before this is all said and done. The heaviest rain will fall Saturday morning into the afternoon.

South winds will develop Friday night and last through at least part of Saturday. We are headed into a full moon Sunday night and we are in the season of abnormally high spring tides so there is coastal flooding risk at high tide for south and east facing shorelines from Delaware to New Jersey to Long Island and South Coastal New England. Temperatures Saturday will reach into the 50s while remaining in the 40s well inland.

We should be general improvement in weather conditions Saturday night from west to east as the rain pulls out and Sunday, Palm Sunday, is shaping up to be a nice day of sunshine however there will be a gusty north to northeast wind and that will keep temperatures mostly in the mid to upper 40s for highs. We may also have coastal flooding issues continuing into early next week as an onshore flow develops across the Northeast and Northern Mid Atlantic states though we do not see rain in the forecast for the first part of next week.

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