The warm and humid airmass from this past weekend is a distant memory this afternoon, as cooler air with lower dew points has settled into the area. A refreshing northwest breeze will continue for the remainder of the day with high temperatures around average in the mid 70’s. The trend is expected to continue through […]
After a weekend of heat (temperatures over 90 degrees since last Thursday in many locations), scattered showers and thunderstorms have developed this evening throughout the area. The main organized severe weather threat remained to our north, over New England, where better shear allowed for more widespread organized severe thunderstorms. Despite plenty of sun and instability […]
The Storm Prediction Center has placed parts of Northern New Jersey, Southeast New York ,Connecticut, and the New York City Metro Area in a “Slight Risk” for severe thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon and evening. The “Slight Risk” category is triggered by probabilities of severe weather within 25 miles of a point — and in this case […]
Warm fronts can be pretty deceiving. Depending on the positioning of the front at the surface, and the amount of warm air that looms behind the front, conditions can seem fairly raw and damp near and ahead it. Much of the same is true in our area today, as east winds ahead of a surface […]