We have to get rid of this persistent trough
The
secondary cold front that came through later yesterday and last night, cleared
the clouds out, allowing for great radiational cooling conditions leading to a
very cold night, that provided frost and freeze for many of us.
Today will
be the best day of this work week, as high pressure continues to work down out
of Canada. Looking at the surface chart, radar and satellite. We can see not
much is going on overhead, high pressure is providing plenty of sunshine, with
only a few clouds leaving the region rain free. Temperatures today will be seasonally cool but
comfortable. But this won’t last.
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On Satellite
we can see a strong shortwave up over the Upper Great Lakes. It also shows a
lot of moisture over the Southeast. This shortwave will approach and move
through Tuesday night and on Wednesday
A warm front
will lift through Tuesday night into Wednesday, there could be some rain
showers accompanying the front. The upper-level
low setup will keep us a bit unsettled.
Then the
cold front will come through later Wednesday and Wednesday night. Bringing more rain showers and thunderstorms.
General rainfall amounts over the next few days, looks to be 0.50 to 1.0
inches. Tomorrow we’re going to see an
area of low pressure develop along the frontal boundary. We’re going to have high
pressure over the Canadian Maritimes this is going to help suppress the low
pressure to the south and west.
This will
end up being cut off from the flow and hang out over Pennsylvania. This will be
hanging around for Thursday, producing scattered rain showers and isolated
thunderstorms. Some of those in southern New England into the Middle Atlantic
could see with embedded
moderate downpours at times.
The cutoff
low will slowly start to pull away Thursday night and Friday providing isolated
to scattered rain showers. On Friday the showers should be more in the way of lingering
and spottier. Those with the best chance of see more in the way of steadier
rain, will be closer to the coast and across southern parts of the Maine into
Southern New England. After Friday we’ll see temperatures start to climb.
The first
part of the weekend starts to be dry. But we will be watching a weakening cold
front approach accompanying a little trough. This will be moving across the region for
later Saturday into Sunday. Right now, it looks to bring widespread clouds and
the chance for isolated rain showers, but many of y’all shouldn’t see them. This will be the start of a shift into a drier
and warmer pattern.
But we could
end up with a system and some showers and a few thunderstorms for Labor Day
Monday as a warm front lifts into the region, with the front much milder air
will work into the region. On Tuesday
the trailing cold front will slowly work through. Ahead of the front that
southern flow will bring in even warmer air, but the air will be more humid
that we’ve been seeing. The front will also bring widespread scattered rain
showers and thunderstorms. Tuesday afternoon into Tuesday evening, some of
these thunderstorms could be strong to severe.
Thank you
for taking the time to read this.
Have a great rest of your day
