Miguel Pierre

Northeast US Weekly Planner: Humidity & Storms Return This Week

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Good morning! Have you noticed the cooler and drier air in place? Great! Are you enjoying it? Even better! Because it won’t be around for long.

The first several days of August, in particular, look to bring a sharp return to mid-summer conditions in the Northeast, with increasingly prevalent moisture and humidity. Temperatures will warm gradually as well, with a tropical-like feel to the airmass that looks likely to continue into the middle of August at minimum.

High pressure is weakening and sliding offshore from the Northeast states today. Sunshine and lower humidity is expected to persist through the afternoon, as drier air remains stout. Gradually, however, a southerly flow is expected to return. This will aid in an increase in humidity and clouds as the afternoon goes on, with high temperatures in the Northeast averaging in the lower to middle 80’s.

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John Homenuk

Weekly Planner: We live in the tropics now

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It’s warm, it’s humid, and it’s going to rain a lot. Welcome to the tropics.

A deep southeasterly flow (which, not coincidentally, draws air parcels directly from the tropical Atlantic into the Northeast) has established itself over the past 24 hours. Dew points have increased and so has the moisture content in the atmosphere, and with a frontal boundary draped from the Mid Atlantic into the Northeast states, showers and thunderstorms have been common during the afternoon and early evening hours.

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Miguel Pierre

Weekend Planner: Unsettled Weather with Saturday Night Coastal Storm

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Good evening! After some beautiful weather over the past few days, more unsettled, wetter and muggy weather is likely again this weekend. This comes as a large upper-level low moves into the Ohio Valley and a coastal slow.  develops and moves northward along the Eastern Mid-Atlantic region. It may not be good day to go down the New Jersey or Delmarva shore on Saturday, as they will likely be some rough surf with some more rain arriving. But neither Saturday nor Sunday will be a complete washout for the much of Northeast or Mid-Atlantic, as the coastal storm should move progressively.

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Miguel Pierre

Weekly Planner: Strong T-Storms & Heavy Rainfall Likely Later Today

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Good morning! There is increasing potential for some heavy rainfall and strong to severe thunderstorms later this afternoon and evening, as a cold front approaches. Before that though, it will be just be hot and humid with high temperatures reaching the mid-upper 80s or lower 90s over the urban I-95 corridor, with more sunshine into at least early this afternoon. It will be a little cooler, with sea-breezes later, closer to the shore. But southerly winds will continuing to transport tropical moisture into the area, with dewpoints in the lower to middle 70s. This will lead to heat index values in the middle or upper 90s, again this afternoon. Thus a heat advisory continues for Northeast NJ and NYC for today.

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