Where is true Spring?

 A quick post for tomorrow into next week

The cold front is ever so slowly sliding away. Leaving a few rain showers over the area. On the IR satellite we can see we have a disturbance out west to will be making for wet weather for later Friday and on Saturday.

Thursday night into Friday morning is going to be the coldest time during the next few days, with frost or freezes in many parts of upstate New York, Pennsylvania and northwestern and northern New England.

Friday will look similar to today with a few isolated showers. For many of us most of the day is dry. Friday morning will start out very cool and will feature sunshine followed by increasing clouds mixing in during the afternoon. There will be a few showers around in the afternoon. It will be breezy and fairly cool

The weekend still looks like a split with rain on Saturday then some sunshine for Mother’s Day.

That Low pressure to our west is going to be approaching and tracking across Pennsylvania into the Middle Atlantic Friday night and Saturday. This will bring periods of rain showers to the part of the region. This will be especially true for areas along and south of the New York State Thruway corridor. North of there the showers should be much more isolated.

The second half of the weekend will end up much better. Mother's Day is shaping up to be a nicer day. It’ll be breezy, With morning sun. However, clouds increase during the afternoon with showers and a few storms developing later in the day. The rain will continue overnight into Monday morning. evening storms to the Northeast,

Looking ahead to next week, we’re going to see a deep trough drop into the region out of Hudson Bay, Canada. As we’ve seen over the last several weeks, this pattern will send additional waves of cool to chilly air into Great Lakes, Midwest and Northeast—so planting is likely not a good idea, and it looks too soon to open the pool. Another round or two of frost in the Northeast and maybe some freezes are likely. Along with these shots of cooler air, there will be rainfall opportunities, with rain amounts of 0.5” to around 1.0 inches falling across a large part of the region through at least the middle of next week.

 

The Drought Monitor

The U.S. Drought Monitor released on Thursday, May 7 showed drought and/or abnormally dry conditions expand in a few spots closer to the coast due to factors like below-normal precipitation and reduced streamflow, groundwater levels, and soil moisture. However, wetter weather allowed severe drought to contract in coastal Maine. Conditions were unchanged for much of the Northeast, with drought-related impacts persisting.

Severe drought grew to cover 90% of Maryland and 58% of Delaware this week compared to 68% and less than 1%, respectively, last week.