Sweet Spot of Sunshine Saturday Mostly Dry Sunday
Week Ahead Continues To Show Periods of Gloom & Doom
Sweet Spot of Sunshine Saturday Mostly Dry Sunday
Week Ahead Continues To Show Periods of Gloom & Doom
We are into the weekend and it has taken all week long to get us into what I would call the weather sweet spot. To the east we have the storm that had been stalled over Nova Scotia for the last 3 days. That has now dropped southeast and is beginning to slowly move east. To the west we have clouds ahead of a cold front that produced severe weather in the Plains last night and it will do the same in the Midwest today. This leaves us as we see on the satellite in a zone of clear skies and more importantly, the winds have finally begun to ease. Temperatures today will rach the low and middle 60s which is about where we should be for this time of year.
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Most lows tonight will be in the 40s under clear skies and that will be a nice welcome relief from the cold nights of the last 3 days. Sunday should start with some sunshine but with storm offshore moving away it opens a door for the western system to move east. The issue though is that the system is now weak and lacks support for getting stronger.
There will be an arm of showers Sunday that will push east across Pennsylvania and it could reach Southeast Pennsylvania into New Jersey by late afternoon and evening. Most of those showers will be late. Every else at this point would be overcast. Highs will reach the middle to upper 60s.Notice that it as actually warmer from New Jersey to Southern New England because these areas will see more sun.
The opposite will be the case on Monday when a northeast southwest frontal boundary lies on a diagonal from Northeast Pennsylvania to Southern New Jersey. This time we will see areas to the south of boundary in clouds and some sunshine with highs reaching the 70s. To the northeast more clouds and a bit of an onshore flow will keep temperatures in the 50s to at best low 60s with clouds, a few showers, or some drizzle. Not exactly a pretty there in those areas from NYC to Southern New England.
Tuesday sees low pressure approaching from the Ohio Valley with what looks like a warm front cold front combination so we will be in clouds most of the day Tuesday with highs in the 60s. The we get into some showers Tuesday night and Wednesday along with the chance for a thunderstorm for someone. Then we have the next stronger system for Thursday night and Friday and possibly lingering into Saturday. Models are still struggling with a new block that forms in the Atlantic next week and whether that block will suppress the system to the south or allow the rain to move northward into the Hudson Valley and Southern New England. Either way even if the rain stays south it will leave us in a long fetch easterly flow, clouds and at the very least some drizzle in what looks like a gloom and doom couple of days. Hopefully it settles out for Mother’s Day which is next Sunday but this is no guarantee by any means.
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