Wednesday is going to be another wet day and we’re looking to be a cooler starting today.
Surface
Chart and Current Radar
The cold front
is ever so slowly moving across the region. Looking at the surface chart, it has
become semi stationary and is setting over northern New England and extending
back over New York State into Pennsylvania. The western parts of the region are seeing scattered
to isolated rain showers, while the eastern half of the region is dealing with
waves of widespread showers.
The front
has brought cooler conditions into the region; here is a look at the 24-hour
temperature change from Penn-States E-wall
Image curtesy of Pivotal Weather
With all the
rain over the last 24 hours, there are currently no flooding watches or warning
alerts posted yet, but there are areas of high water in some poor drainage area flooding and
ponding on roadways. The amount of rain does have streams and creeks running
high as well.
The front is going to slowly continue to drop south and east and end up sitting just to our east for tomorrow. This will mean this cooler and unsettled weather is going to hang around for a few days. Thursday much of the region should be much drier, with only a chance for a few isolated showers, but those closer to the frontal boundary in the Middle Atlantic and southeast New England and across eastern Maine will see scattered showers. Friday we will see a weak trough move through, keeping the threat for a few rain showers in the forecast, bunt many of us should stay mostly dry. For Thursday and Friday our temperature is going to remain cool.
Friday night
and Saturday, an area of low pressure currently bringing snow to parts of Colorado
will be approaching and moving through. Ahead of this it will get a little breezy
with a more in the way of widespread rain showers moving in. While Saturday won’t
be a wash out there is going to be widespread rain showers with the
temperatures remaining cool. Those with the best chance of see more of the rain
will be across Pennsylvania and the northern Middle Atlantic. Mother’s Day
should be drier as this moves to the east. But we will still be dealing with a
trough, so there will still be a chance for a few scattered rain showers. This will be especially
true over western and northern New York State. Then on Monday another area of
low pressure will approach bring more unsettled weather. Rain will likely
become widespread and could be heavy at times. There could be a few rumbles of
thunder, but I don’t expect any severe weather. Tuesday will see this system clear
to the east, leaving drier conditions but with still a chance for isolated rain
showers. For Tuesday night into Wednesday, another area of low pressure will approach
and move through.
As you can
see the pattern is going to stay active and unsettled, this is common for a developing
El Nino. But the pattern looks to remain cool, this isn’t so common for an El
Nino.
