Flood Watches Delaware to New England
High Wind Watch Long Island to Southeast New England
Flood Watches Delaware to New England
High Wind Watch Long Island to Southeast New England
As we look ahead to a rather strong storm system and cold front, we have flood watches later Sunday into Monday morning for heavy rains from Delaware to New England including all of Eastern Pennsylvania to Southern New England and Long Island. High Wind Watches are posted late Sunday into Monday morning for Long Island as well as Southeastern New England for winds gusting well over 50 mph later Sunday and Sunday night. As we draw closer we are likely to see additional advisories and warnings regarding the wind.
Saturday is the better of the two weekend days obviously in the Northeast and Northern Mid Atlantic. We will probably see some patchy high clouds moving through but also a fair amount of sunshine. A southwest flow has taken over and high temperatures this afternoon will be in the warm mid to upper 50s in most places. Radars are nice and quiet and will stay that way into Sunday morning.
SATELLITE WITH LIGHTNING STRIKES
WEATHER RADAR
There will be no issues tonight into Sunday morning other than clouds increasing overnight and temperatures that will be going. Most lows will be in the 40s. Weather conditions will deteriorate Sunday as southerly winds increase as we move through the day especially along the coast. A cold front approaches and a wave will develop on the front somewhere near the New Jersey coast and then head into Southern and Southeastern New England overnight into Monday morning.
Rain develops from west to east from late morning to mid afternoon across Eastern Pennsylvania to Southern New England and continue overnight. There may also be one or two thunderstorms in the mix as the low develops in the frontal boundary. The strongest winds will likely be from 7pm to 5am for areas like Long Island and Coastal New Jersey.
Winds inland should be less and while we will see gusts perhaps reaching 30 mph or higher, we think that will fall short as far as advisory criteria, at least in the first part of the storm system. However we will probably see winds increase inland to 30 to 40 mph during the day Monday on the backside of the storm system and cold front. By Monday morning the strongest winds will be in Southeast New England.
As far as rainfall is concerned we are talking about 2 to 2.50 inches of rain coming over about a 6 hour timeframe and this will be enough to perhaps cause some flooding issues especially in areas that normally flood out in a heavy rainfall.
Finally there will be areas from Northeastern Pennsylvania, Poconos to the Catskills on the NY side and points north and east that will see a change over to snow later Sunday night into Monday morning as the low moves into New England and cold air comes in on the backside.
For most areas, rain will come to an end Monday morning from west to east leaving us with a windy and cold Monday. Leftover clouds and gusty winds will dominate the dayside Monday as temperatures settle in the 40s and then drop lower Monday night. Once this storm system is done, we should be dry for the rest of the week with seasonal temperatures. Next weekend we may be dealing with another strong storm system moving northward up the East Coast.
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