Showers Tonight Into Early Thursday
Summer Arrives 90s Saturday Thunderstorms Late Sunday
Showers Tonight Into Early Thursday
Summer Arrives 90s Saturday Thunderstorms Late Sunday
Every spring it is pretty much the same thing. We stay cold raw and wet most of the time into the first part of May and then suddenly a switch is flipped and temperatures zoom to the 90s. Everyone acts as if it has never happened before but in fact it happens almost every spring. This one is no different. We are transitioning into a hot and eventually humid air mass beginning Friday and peaking on Saturday when temperatures are likely to reach the low and even middle 90s inland though it will be much cooler at the beaches. However we have to get there first and we have today which will see sunshine fading later today behind arriving clouds. Highs will be in the upper 60s and lower 70s.
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Those clouds are ahead of a warm front of sorts and we will likely see some showers developing later tonight and ending probably by daybreak or so from west to east. After that we will see some slow improvement but there will be a bit of a range in temperatures from east to west.
In Southern and Southeastern New England clouds could take awhile to get out of the way and in those areas temperatures will likely struggle in the 60s. On the other side is south and west of NYC where temperatures will likely reach the upper 70s to lower 80s. Those areas should break out into some sunshine by mid morning Thursday.
Now we head into Friday and the weekend. High pressure off the East Coast will be pumping up warmer air into the East. Winds Friday will be more from the south than southwest so that will keep coastal areas and shorelines cooler in the 70s but just inland highs will reach the mid to upper 80s and well inland we could see highs close to 90 degrees. There should be a fair amount of sunshine.
Saturday we will see a subtle wind change from the south to the southwest and that will mean most everyone except the beaches will warm up considerably. In fact it will be downright hot with sunshine,. Since Saturday morning lows will be in the warm 60s, the launching pad is set for the powerful mid May sun to take highs up into the 90s and low to mid 90s will be quite common across the entire araa, again the shore will be much cooler and sea breezes will try to push inland.
Sunday will bring one last round of very warm weather though temperatures could be a little lower due to some arriving clouds. Timing of that front will he to the forecast. Latest model runs are hinting that the approaching front will slow down as it nears and that might keep showers and thunderstorms to the west and inland in Pennsylvania and upstate New York. In which case those storms might be marginally severe to the west but they will die out before they get here. On the other hand if the front does slow, then we run the risk fo it slowing down to the point that it passes and then a wave develops on it with a period of rain on Monday before weather conditions improve afterwards. This will be worked out in the next day or two. By the way some early hints on the Memorial Day weekend show that we do not have blocking which is a good thing. Last year it was a raw cold rainy weekend. We could possibly have the opposite of that this time around as a ridge tries to build along the East Coast. Since this usually the holiday weekend you lose one day with some rain, I think that it may turn out mostly rain free as long as weather systems can move along. I’m leaning optomistic for the time being. It is too far out to be specific at this point.
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