Slow Warm Up Into Saturday Coastal Low Brings Rain Up The Coast Sunday
We had another cold night and another round of frosts and freezes away from warmer urban areas and along the immediate coast. Now we can start the process of warming up but that process will be slow thanks to a strong upper trough that still sits overhead in the Eastern US. Also even though we will get into a southwest flow, the air from the southwest is actually cold right now as this cold air mass has covered all of the Eastern US. At least we have no rain issues so with sunshine today we should make it to the middle and in a few places upper 50s for highs.
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Tonight will be another chilly night of clear skies, frosts and freezes and lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Friday we should start to see temperatures move up with sunshine taking highs into the lower 60s in most places. It will be a nice finish to the week as temperatures gravitate to normal for this time of year.
Saturday will be the better of the two weekend days and it will be a relatively warm day as temperatures move a little above average. We should see a good deal of sunshine at least for the first half of the day and perhaps some high clouds start coming up from the south Saturday afternoon. Highs Saturday will be in the low to middle 60s.
Let’s move on to Saturday night and Sunday. Low pressure is going to develop off the Southeast US coast. Normally we would be concerened about tropical storm development were this to sit over the warmer waters off Florida and the Carolinas, but this low is simply going to be moving up the coast too quickly so it won’t have time to turn from cold core to warm core. Even if it did it wouldn’t make much difference in the outcome here.
The rain will spread from south to north late Satuday night into Sunday night as the GFS loop shows. The latest European model is now on the same page as the GFS so this looks to make Sunday a gloom and doom type of day. Rainfall amounts will be less to the west and more to the east with 1 inch plus amounts possible from Long Island and Southern New England east and northeast. Overall Sunday can best be decribed as a gloom and doom type of day. We will likely have clouds and lingering rain or showers Sunday night into Monday before weather conditions improve somewhat.
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