Still Warm But No Record Highs As Sunshine Returns
Some Rain Late Sunday into Early Monday
Still Warm But No Record Highs As Sunshine Returns
Some Rain Late Sunday into Early Monday
We will be coming off the record highs of yesterday as slightly cooler air starts to come in. It will be a stair step decline in temperatures over the next couple of days, bottoming out Saturday. Though it will be cooler it will by no means be cold as temperatures will still be running above average for this time of year when highs should be in the mid to upper 50s. Other than some patchy leftover clouds, skies should be no worse than partly sunny today. Most highs today will be in the mid to upper 70s.
SATELLITE WITH LIGHTNING STRIKES
WEATHER RADAR
Skies should be clear tonight with most lows in the 40s except near 50 degrees in the warmer urban areas. Friday we take another step down in temperatures with partly to mostly sunny skies. A weak front will pass later in the day as northwest winds pick up a bit. Friday highs will be in the mid to upper 60s with some warm spots touching 70 degrees or so.
Friday night into Saturday the coolest air of this new building high will build in so Saturday morning lows will be in the 30s in most inland places and low 40s in warmer urban areas. Saturday should be a mostly sunny but cool day with a north northeast wind developing. Highs will be in the upper 50s and lower 60s.
Low pressure is developing in the Southern Plains and that system is producing heavy snow in parts of New Mexico and Colorado and there will be severe weather risks and flooding risks across Texas. In the Gulf of Mexico we have Hurricane Rafael which is moving westward across the middle part of the Gulf. The Southern Plains low will head northward to the Great Lakes while the associated cold front will move eastward.
Rafael’s moisture will remain separate from the developing storm system to the north which means less moisture but there is enough inflow from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic to bring an area wide rainfall to Eastern Pennsylvania to Southern New England later Sunday into Sunday night and early Monday. Models seem to be closing in on a quarter to a half inch of rain which makes only a very small dent in the 6 inches plus rain deficit that we have developed since early September.
You can expect increasing and thickening clouds Sunday with rain spreading from west to east during the afternoon and early evening and then continuing overnight, ending from west to east by daybreak Monday. Temperatures Sunday will be in a range of about 60 to 65. Winds will turn more southerly Sunday and the shift to the west once the front passes during Sunday night.
We return to dry and cooler air early next week though temperatures will continue to remain above average. Another weather front arrives Thursday and it seems that front will have limited moisture. We seem to be going to a set up where the Southeast US ridge is weaker but not completely gone so we may not see the big warmups like we have seen lately. Also the weaker ridge could allow for more chances for rain down the road.
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