Red Flag Warning Another Warm-ish Day Ahead of
Some Rain Late Sunday & Sunday Night
Red Flag Warning Another Warm-ish Day Ahead of
Some Rain Late Sunday & Sunday Night
Dry conditions across the Northeast and Northern Mid Atlantic states have become extreme in some places. The combination of very dry air and gusty winds have made the area ripe for potential wildfires. Red Flag Warnings are posted for a large area from Northeast Virginia and Delaware northeast to Southern and Southeastern New England including all of New Jersey, the Hudson Valley, New Jersey and Long Island. It also includes all of the major and not so major urban areas from from Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia, New York City, Hartford, Providence, and Boston.
It will be a day of plenty of sunshine across Eastern Pennsylvania to Southern New England. It will be breezy at times and temperatures continue warm and above average though we are taking another small step down away from the record highs of the last 2 days. Most highs will be in the upper 60s and lower 70s. Radars are quiet just about everywhere in the Eastern US.
SATELLITE WITH LIGHTNING STRIKES
WEATHER RADAR
A weak front/upper trough will pass this evening and that will allow temperatures to fall some tonight under a mainly clear sky. Lows by Saturday morning will be in the 30s except for lower 40s in warmer urban areas. Saturday will be a day of sunshine with temperatures cooler and closer to average with highs reaching the upper 50s to some lower 60s.
We are starting to see the strong southeast ridge pattern flatten out somewhat. This will allow weather systems to approach and move through and they will have some moisture to work with as they do so. This should finally put an end to the lack of measurable rainfall which in some places has been going on for 6 to 7 weeks. Longer term we should see weather systems move along on a regular basis with some rain risks when they arrive however it is going to take a lot to make up for the 6 to 7 inch rain deficit.
Dry conditions continue Saturday with wildfire risk continuing across much of the Northeast and Northern Mid Atlantic states. Saturday will be the better of the two weekend days. Sunshine should dominate from start to finish. Temperatures will be cool but still a little above average. Highs will reach the upper 50s and lower 60s.
Most of Saturday night will be nice and clear with ideal radiational cooling conditions. Lows will be in the upper 20s to mid 30s across many inland and isolated areas while warmer urban locations till be in the upper 30s and lower 40s. Clouds will quickly arrive Sunday and we will see rain spreading across the area from west to east Sunday afternoon. High temperatures will be in a range of 60 to 65 but a little lower when rain develops.
Rain will continue Sunday night and then gradually end from west to east. It should be mostly gone by daybreak Monday. Though this is technically a cold front moving through there isn’t much in the way of cold air behind the weather front. Some sunshine will develop Monday with a west wind and highs will reach the mid to upper 60s. Tuesday and Wednesday will be dry, sunny and temperatures will likely be in the lower 60s Tuesday and mid to upper 50s Wednesday.
As far as rain amounts are concerned, it should be enough to make puddles and that it is spread out over a 12 hour timeframe will at least allow the quarter to at most half inch rains to soak into the parched ground. We will obviously need a lot more to get back to even and we do see a stronger more robust cold front with rain coming in for Thursday of next week.
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