Quick look at the coming week and long range

 Well it briefly felt like summer.But that's over at least for now.

Current conditions

Much colder air came screaming in behind the cold front That is now sitting off the Middle Atlantic Coast up across eastern New England.

Image courtesy tropical tidbits

The Great Lakes and Eastern US is setting under a very deep trough. Making for temperatures that are well below average for this time of year. 

Image courtesy of Penn state

The cold front brought rain Showers and thunderstorms across the region Saturday and Saturday night. It also brought snow showers across northern Pennsylvania New York state into northern and central new England The higher elevations picked up An inch or two of a wet slushy snow. Those strong winds we had for Saturday Are now much weaker. But those cold temperatures are a shock to the system. Looking back up again at the surface chart. We can see there's a secondary cold front that it's gonna drop through tonight into tomorrow. This is going to bring more rain showers and higher elevation snow showers across the region it is also going to keep us very cool for tomorrow. Tuesday we'll see temperatures become warmer but high pressure means it's still going to be below average for this time of year. For Wednesday into Thursday temperatures are going to become seasonal.  Wednesday we're going to dealing with a weak area of low pressure that could bring a few scattered rain showers to the region. Then for Thursday we are going to have high pressure once again setting up over the region. Thursday looks to be generally dry across the region. This high pressure is going to stay with us through Friday, Friday we'll see our temperatures become average to slightly above average. Friday night and Saturday we are going to see a warm front lifting into the region. Allowing temperatures to get a little warmer. But it also mean a return of some rain showers and possibly thunderstorms. For Sunday we're going to be dealing with another stationary front that will keep it unsettled. 

The long range

When we talk about the long range It looks like the same general weather pattern we had during the winter is going to stick around. Over the last couple of months I've been talking about this So I hope it isn't a big surprise. Looking at the models below courtesy of tropical tidbits. We can see that the general ridging will stay out over the West while general troughing stays over the Eastern half of the United States. This trough is going to keep us overall a bit cool to maybe downright cold at times. This doesn't mean there won't be days that are warm and pleasant. But on average the rest of April and May is looking to be overall cool. I also think June is going to see the same general ridge trough pattern across the United States. So June could also be relatively cool compared to average.

Well that's it have a great rest of your Sunday .