Astronomical summer starts at 4:24am on Sunday, and we’ll start things off with some rather nice weather.
Any lingering showers or thunderstorms will come to an end this evening as a cold front pushes offshore, with gradual clearing tonight. High pressure builds in for Friday with sunshine and lower humidity, but we’ll still have some clouds around with an upper-level disturbance nearby. We’ll have some gusty winds behind the front Friday, but they’ll start to diminish on Saturday, with more sunshine and low humidity. Sunday is the transition day, as another low pressure system heads our way. Most of the day will be dry and warm, but clouds will be streaming in ahead of the system, and humidity levels will slowly start to rise again. We could see a few late-day showers, but it looks like most of the rain will hold off until Monday. With the drought continuing to get worse, we need all the rain we can get. Many of the forecast models show the system on Monday bringing in some widespread rainfall, potentially heavy. However, we’ve seen this several times over the past few months. All of the models show a good soaking rain coming in, giving us some drought relief, and by the time the system gets here, the heavy rain either goes into Northern New England or across the Mid-Atlantic states, and around here we just end up with some scattered showers. We’ve mentioned a few times the old saying – “When in drought, leave it out”, so we’re skeptical that we’re going to get the widespread rains the models are forecasting. Until it actually happens, we need to see it to believe it.
Thursday night: Showers and thunderstorms end in the evening, becoming clear to partly cloudy overnight. Low 59-66.
Friday: A mix of sun and clouds, breezy, less humid. High 76-83.
Friday night: Clear skies. Low 58-65.
Saturday: Sunshine and some afternoon clouds, still breezy. High 75-82.
Saturday night: Clear to partly cloudy. Low 56-63.
Sunday: Mostly sunny to start, some clouds start to filter in, chance for a late-day shower. High 76-83.
Sunday night: Becoming partly to mostly cloudy. Low 56-63.
Monday: Cloudy with showers likely. High 72-79.
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