5-DAY HEAT WAVE ON THE WAY FOR SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY… HEAT ADVISORIES WILL LIKELY BE HOISTED OVER THE WEEKEND… FOLKS PRONE TO HEAT ILLNESS OR THOSE WHO WORK OUTSIDE NEED TO PLAN ACCORDINGLY… MORNING FOG AS WELL AS A FEW MORNING SHOWERS ALONG/EAST OF I-91 TODAY GIVE WAY TO A PARTLY SUNNY DAY AS HUMIDITY INCREASES… WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS OR A THUNDERSTORM TOMORROW AT ANY POINT WITH WARMING TEMPS, THEN AS POST-EAGLES GLENN FREY USED TO SING, THE HEAT IS ON *INSERT SULTRY POST-CHORUS SAX MELODY HERE*… 7:05AM FRI…
Good morning everybody, we’ve got some patchy fog in spots this morning as dewpoints rise into the 50s to meet low temps also in the 50s.
We also have a few scattered showers tracking south to north with the weak low I mentioned over the past couple of days. They are mainly east of I-91 in CT/MA.
Those will dissipate with time this morning, and we’ll move into a parlty sunny day with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s with lows around 60º under partly cloudy skies.
The humidity will also increase today and tonight. This means we bid adieu, say bon voyage, and farewell to dry air as a giant upper level ridge flexes in the east in combination with a strong surface high pressure system in the western Atlantic, a/k/a “Bermuda High”.
We’ll start to warm on Saturday, with highs reaching the low to mid 80s, but it should be mostly cloudy with a few showers or a thunderstorm possible. Lows will be in the upper 60s as the Muggy Meter starts to pin into the red.
Sunday through Thursday will see a heat wave overspread the region with hot temperatures in the low to mid 90s for some, and high humidity with dewpoints in the 60s to low 70s.
Sunday and Monday will be so warm/hot through the lower to upper levels of the atmosphere, that it will be stable, and should preclude any shower or thunderstorm development.
Highs will reach the mid 80s to low 90s Sunday, and the upper 80s to mid 90s Monday, with lows in the upper 60s to low 70s both nights.
Once we reach the Tuesday to Thursday timeframe, we’ll start seeing more destabilized air vertically, and with continued highs in the mid 80s to mid 90s, and dewpoints in the 60s and 70s, we’ll start to develop some afternoon and evening showers, downpours and thunderstorms, possibly lasting into Friday.
Heat Advisories will probably need to be hoisted due to apparent or feels-like temps reaching into the mid to upper 90s by early next week.
Gear up, folks, summah’s comin’…. have a great day!