6:45A-FRI: THE CRISPENING COMMENCES… GORGEOUS LATE-SUMMER WEEKEND AHEAD… NEXT SUBSTANTIAL SHOWER/STORM THREAT IS MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK… LOTS OF SUNSHINE BETWEEN NOW AND THEN… HURRICANE LARRY RUNS THROUGH ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND AS A CAT 1 ‘CANE AND THEN MORPHS INTO A BLIZZARD OVER EASTERN GREENLAND…
Good morning everybody, we’re breathing, we’re circulating, we’re digesting, and in short, our 50 trillion cells are moving, shaking, and making things happen, so let’s give thanks for that, and see what the interface between the Earth and the Cosmos (a/k/a the weather) has in store for us in the coming days.
We do have increasingly drier and lower humidity conditions moving in for today and tomorrow with a chilly night ahead tonight.
We’ll warm up on Sunday, and then get into a zonal flow next week with a couple of shower chances, especially by mid week, and before we jump into more detail below, let’s first get a word from our sponsor.
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LATE SUMMAH-RY
–Many of us got anywhere from a third of an inch up to 2″ of rainfall, with the heavier amounts east of the I-91 corridor in MA and CT
–Dewpoints have already crashed out of the 60s and low 70s to the mid 50s to near 60º this morning
–Skies are clearing from west to east, and we should develop a partly sunny day today with some leftover sky moisture that may combine with a cold pool of air moving overhead to pop a few brief instability showers
–Highs will only reach the mid 60s to low 70s as cooler, drier air continues to advect into the region behind yesterday’s cold frontal passage, and northwest winds will gust over 20mph at times
–A chilly night is upcoming, wouldn’t be surprised if a few wood stoves get fired up for the first time in the western hilltowns or southern VT with lows in the mid to upper 40s under slackening wind and clear skies
–For Saturday, a perfectly pleasant day will be produced, with highs in the low to mid 70s, mostly sunny skies, and light wind as high pressure approaches from the west, sliding southeast into the Mid-Atlantic region
–Lows will drop into the mid to upper 50s as southerly flow begins to setup shop in southern New England
–We’ll get a southwest flow to be generated on Sunday as that high moves south of us with its clockwise circulation in effect
–This will create a gorgeous late-summer day with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s under mostly sunny skies, with a bit of humidity but nothing intolerable
–A cold front will approach at night and bring some showers into the region, with lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s, and we can’t rule out a thunderstorm as well
–By Monday, yet another fair weather day arrives under partly sunny skies and highs in the low to mid 70s and lows in the mid to upper 50s as we enter into a more west-to-east (a/k/a zonal) flow across the northern half of the country
–This new sub-pattern will zip a few waves of low pressure through the region at times through the week
–Tuesday looks like the last mostly sunny day this upcoming week with highs in the low to mid 70s
–Then we’ll enter a more unsettled and slightly warmer stretch Tuesday night into Thursday with chances for showers and thunderstorms, and highs in the 75-80º range
Meanwhile, Hurricane Larry will stay well east of New England today and tomorrow, but will generate swell and rip currents at New England beaches, so follow local guidance if you’re heading to the beaches today or tomorrow.
The storm will weaken but blast through southeastern Newfoundland (a/k/a The Avalon Peninsula) and the city of St. John’s as a Category 1 hurricane. Thereafter, it will deepen again as it is re-energized into its second life as a major snowstorm over eastern Greenland when it interacts with the polar jet stream up that way!
For days, heavy snow will fall up that way, and we’ll have to watch for future impacts to our weather, as tropical systems that inject into the high northern latitudes can shake things up in northern hemispheric weather patterns, so what is to come is to be determined as we go forward, but isn’t that just the way life is anyway?
Have a great day!