DAYS 1-5 (JUNE 11-15)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s weekend time! The next-to-last weekend of spring and the second weekend of meteorological summer. So, how’s this one gonna turn out? Not bad. Not perfect. Of course your perception of how good or bad the weather is doesn’t fit into some neat rule book everybody follows. If you are a lover of hot weather, this won’t be a great weekend. If you don’t like the heat, you’ll like this weekend. If you thrive on 100% sunshine, which is rare, you’re definitely not going to find this weekend to your liking. If the weekend has to be dry with nary a drop of rain in the vicinity, well, you’ll like today, but not tomorrow. If you want the chance to dance in a spring shower, tomorrow’s your day, at least potentially. See what I’m getting at? When I refer to weather as being “nice”, I’m often just referring to fair (not unsettled, not stormy), but you’re always free to apply your own adjectives. Is it even safe for me to admit I like all weather, including being socked in with New England’s famous east wind, low overcast, fog, and drizzle? Hah! Well, we don’t have that this weekend. So, what is it we do have then? … Well, we have a weak high pressure area that controlled yesterday’s weather now slipping off to the south of our area. While we have a fairly weak wind field today, it can warm up a bit more than it did yesterday as yesterday we had a gusty westerly breeze still advecting cool air into the region. The warming will be tempered by a fair amount of high cloudiness though, streaming northeastward from a disturbance heading for the Mid Atlantic States via the Appalachian Mountains. This high cloudiness gave some areas a nice sunset last night, a beautiful sunrise this morning, and may set up yet another colorful sunset this evening. There will be a few diurnal clouds that also pop up under the high cloudiness, but I don’t expect an abundance of these and they will only add a bit of decoration to the sky. Tonight’s quiet, but more clouds will move in overnight. While we may sneak in some sunshine at times, especially in the morning, on Sunday, the cloudiness will end up thicker and the rain chance will go up as a warm front approaches. This warm front extends from a low pressure area destined to pass to our northwest. The low is a surface reflection of an upper level low that will traverse the region from west to east Sunday and Monday. The cold front from the surface low will swing through here on Monday, current timing looking like morning or midday. After a warm and more humid Sunday night in the warm sector of the low, we will keep the chance of showers and a few thunderstorms around from then until the cold front swings through, so the first half of Monday looks more unsettled than the second half for the region in general, but I may have to tweak the timing a bit on tomorrow’s update. One more disturbance swings south of the region Monday night and early Tuesday, but this has no impact on us. What will have impact on us is a ridge of high pressure building toward the East Coast and sending a surface high from Canada into our region Tuesday and Wednesday with fair weather. It will initially be breezy on Tuesday as cooler air moves in, and then with the high settling over us Wednesday, we’ll have lighter wind but the cooling will be most noticeable on the coast where a sea breeze will likely develop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TODAY: Filtered sunshine through considerable high cloudiness. A few fair-weather clouds popping up as well. Highs 75-82, coolest along the coast. Wind variable up to 10 MPH with coastal sea breezes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TONIGHT: Variably cloudy. Lows 59-66. Wind S up to 10 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SUNDAY: Considerably cloudy – best chance of sunshine in the morning. Scattered rain afternoon. Highs 73-80, coolest coast. Wind S-SE up to 10 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Showers likely. Chance of thunderstorms. Areas of fog. Lows 61-68. More humid – dew point 60+. Wind S-SW 5-15 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MONDAY: Variably cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms morning to midday, then sun and passing clouds. Lowering humidity afternoon. Highs 77-84. Wind SW shifting to W 10-20 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MONDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 55-62. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TUESDAY: Sun\/cloud mix. Highs 71-78. Wind NW-N 5-15 MPH and gusty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TUESDAY NIGHT: Clear. Lows 51-58. Wind N under 10 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WEDNESDAY: Sunny. Highs 72-79, coolest coast. Wind variable up to 10 MPH with coastal sea breezes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DAYS 6-10 (JUNE 16-20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
High pressure ridging de-amplifies somewhat and moves off the East Coast so we warm up but also increase the chance of unsettled weather as a trough and frontal system push in from the west anytime between late June 16 through June 17. A push of drier, cooler air should follow that but late in the period we may have to watch for a temporary block in the pattern as the trough moving offshore cuts off and hangs around out there. If it ends up doing it sooner or there is a little retrogression to the feature, we could be unsettled, but if far enough east, we stay dry. So there is a higher degree of uncertainty right now for the final days of astronomical spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DAYS 11-15 (JUNE 21-25)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The summer solstice occurs on June 21 and the early hints for the pattern for the first days of summer is fairly dry, but lacking a lot of heat, as we keep the general air flow pattern northwesterly with a mean trough in eastern Canada and ridge of high pressure in the central US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DAYS 1-5 (JUNE 11-15) It’s weekend time! The next-to-last weekend of spring and the second weekend of meteorological summer. So, how’s this one gonna turn out? Not bad. Not perfect. Of course your perception of how good or bad the weather is doesn’t fit into some neat rule book everybody follows. If you are a … Continue reading Saturday June 11 2022 Forecast (9:42AM)<\/span>