08/28/2025

 The cool but great weather continues.

Looking at the surface chart and radar.

We can see high pressure is sitting over the region. With rain approaching out of Canada ahead of that cold front.  Satellite is showing a lot of clouds along cold front with a mix of clouds and sun elsewhere ,with some lifting up over the great lakes into Canada.

Today is going to continue to be seasonally cool, as the high pressure pushes off-shore A southwest flow will mean temperatures and humidity will climb a little bit ahead of the weakening front with rain moving into western New York State and northwest Pennsylvania mid to late afternoon. As all this continues to drop south and east  scattered rain showers and some thunderstorms will move into central Northern New York State and across western Pennsylvania by this evening. While severe weather isn't expected some of the thunderstorms could contain breezy winds and some heavy rain.  The rain and isolated thunderstorms will move into northern new England and central Pennsylvania during tonight. And then eastern New York State Late tonight. The isolated rain showers and a few thunderstorms Will move through the rest of New England Into the northern Middle Atlantic tomorrow. 

Tomorrow we'll see the scattered rain showers continue across western parts of the region during the morning With clearing developing during the afternoon. These conditions will continue west to east as the cold front continues pushing away, Any rain showers Left over New England down into the Middle Atlantic Likely be isolated and spotty. 

Behind this cold front High pressure will build in overhead for Saturday Sunday Monday. Outside the chance for some wildly scattered rain showers Saturday morning the majority of the holiday weekend should be mainly dry with only a slight chance for a few isolated rain showers this will be especially true over Northern new England. The entire weekend will be Seasonally cool. Troughing will be around for Tuesday and Wednesday. It will continue to be mostly dry with a chance for a few showers here and there. The setup means that coastal low I talked about yesterday will likely be to our south and east missing the region. We'll see how things trend. Thursday another cold front from will be approaching from the west. Bringing back a chance for some rain showers and thunderstorms for Thursday into Friday.

I haven't been posting on the drought conditions across the region for a while This was due to a general lack of interest. But yesterday I was asked about the drought conditions. So I thought I would post them today.

The lack of rain over the last several weeks Has led to a large part of the region seeing abnormally dry to drought conditions. The US drought monitor That was released today, Shows 2% of our region in severe drought, 18% in moderate drought and 38% of the region experiencing abnormally dry conditions.