Gloom & Doom Weather On the Way Shower Chances Over the Weekend

Gloom & Doom Weather On the Way Shower Chances Over the Weekend

Gloom & Doom Weather On the Way Shower Chances Over the Weekend

A weather front has pushed to the south and lies across southern New Jersey westward into southernmost Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland. High pressure is building southward into Southeastern Canada and New New England which is opening the door for a descent into the land of gloom and doom. Yesterday’s 80s are history and temperatures today will be 10 degrees lower thanks to increasing clouds and a wind that will be coming in from the east.

Most temperatures this afternoon will top out in the upper 60s and lower 70s and we will see any sunshine give way to arriving clouds. Low pressure is in Tennessee and it is taking a track to the east rather than to the northeast and north. This is going create a warm sector from Delaware and Maryland southward today. This is where the Storm Prediction Center has indicated severe weather risk for today and tonight.

Today’s severe weather outbreak in the Middle and South Atlantic states will be a little lower in magnitude than the severe weather outbreaks of the last week or so. Slight to enhanced risk extends from the Southeast US eastward across the Gulf States. For now there are no weather issues in the Northeast and Northern Mid Atlantic as satellite and radar loops show little in the way of rain or thunderstorm activity anywhere close to Eastern Pennsylvania to Southern New England. Later today and into this evening as clouds increase, some spotty light rain could develop during the afternoon and evening.

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Tonight through Friday night, low pressure tracks east and it eventually finds its way to off the Virginia coast sometime Friday night & early Saturday. That leaves us in a northeast wind, cloudy skies and rain of varying intensity beginning tonight and lasting into Friday night. Friday will be a miserable gloom and doom type day with temperatures mostly in the 50s and in some places north of NYC we are talking low 50s for highs.

The low moves way Saturday to the east but the issue is that we have two upper troughs to deal with that will be moving southeast from Eastern Canada and the Great Lakes. This will leave us in a place where we will dry out some on Saturday and temperatures will be a little higher. However there is the chance for some scattered showers around under changeable sky conditions.

Winds will at least turn from east to more south or southwest ahead of the first upper trough and temperatures Saturday will at least reach back into the 60s everywhere. Sunday we see a second upper trough moving through and Mother’s Day will come with clouds and the risk for showers, though it is not an all day type scenario. Sunday highs will also be in the 60s.

Next week offers little hope for any change in this active pattern. Dry weather days will be few and far between. Monday looks to be one such day before another low heads into the Eastern US late Tuesday with another round of wind as well as severe weather potential.

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