It cools off for the rest of the week.

 

The current surface chart and radar

 

 

We’re going to see the low pressure over western Quebec dive southward into northern New England. This will allow several little troughs to drop down into the region.  This will also bring another cold front, heavier rain that will be steady at times into parts of our region, this will be especially true across northeast New York State and northern Vermont and New Hampshire as well as southern and western parts of Maine.

For the rest of Maine, most of New York state and Connecticut, Most of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. the region will see isolated spotty showers. Away from northern New England many will stay dry. Across Pennsylvania Maryland Delaware and New Jersey, it is looking dry to mostly dry with partly to mostly sunny skies. All in all, this weekend is going to be much nicer than the Memorial Day weekend, for most of us.

This is going to pull down well below average temperatures for the Weekend. Making it feel more like early April than the end of May. 

The temperatures will likely be cold enough in the upper levels that we could see some snow or mixed precipitation in the higher peaks of the Adirondacks, the Green Mountains, and the White Mountains; this will impact areas above 3,500 feet with a few inches of wet snow falling Friday Night into Saturday morning as well below average cold air moves in.

Over the weekend we’re going to have that low pressure moves away from the region, but we’re going to have an upper-level low sitting over the Gulf of Maine, helping keep it a bit unsettled.

Monday we will still be dealing with that trough, keeping it a bit unsettled with the chance for isolated to scattered rain showers. Tuesday into Wednesday we will see the trough linger, keeping the threat for isolated showers around. The first part of next week will be a little milder than the weekend, but it will still feel coolish.  High pressure finely moves back in on Thursday with sunny skies, but it will still be a bit cool

 Drought conditions

 

 The U.S. Drought Monitor released earlier today showed drought and/or abnormally dry conditions improve across parts of New England and the Mid-Atlantic. Needed precipitation enhanced soil moisture, streamflow, and groundwater levels in parts of Maryland, and southern Pennsylvania. However, portions of southern New England continued to see diminished rainfall which resulted in expansion of the drought conditions. There were generally there wasn’t much change elsewhere in the Northeast. The U.S. Drought Monitor showed 3% of New York and New England in severe drought, 21% in moderate drought, and 22% as abnormally dry compared to 3%, 22%, and 23%, respectively, last week.