Summer is back!!!

 

Today’s Northeast weather discussion…

The Surface maps show a warm front lifted through the region with strong high pressure providing an upper-level ridge over the region. We have a strong southwest flow providing very mild but breezy conditions, radar shows the vast majority of the region is rain free under sunny skies. Tomorrow will likely be even warmer. Today and tomorrow will see high temperatures challenge or even break record highs, as the air will be well above average for this time of year.

Tonight, should be mild as well. Tomorrow should stay dry but still be breezy. But an approaching strong cold front will bring the chance for scattered rain showers for western parts of the region Halloween evening/night. The rain will advance west to east during the overnight into Friday morning, rain should end over Maine by Friday afternoon.  With the front winds will continue to be breezy, with much cooler air filtering into the region.

High pressure will build into the region on Friday and over the weekend, providing dry conditions with temperatures near seasonal, with Sunday being the chiller of the two days, so overall the weekend won’t be all that bad.

On Monday high pressure will start to exit east, as a warm front approaches. With the front we can expect to see some scattered rain showers, with rain showers lingering into Tuesday. Temperatures will become milder for the beginning of the work week, but we will have a cold front approaching and moving through on Wednesday. This will bring cooler temperatures and a chance for isolated to scattered showers.

 The region needs rain with rainfall deficits running high in many parts of the region. Unfortunately, no really substantial rain is in the forecast over the next week to ten days. So, the ongoing drought will likely continue to get worse and spread.