A Wet Weekend?
What a gorgeous end of the workweek with lots of sun and pleasantly warm temps for a change. Great news, we do it again tomorrow with ample sun until the afternoon when cirrus clouds start to filter the sun out a bit later in the day. We will also be a notch cooler with a more persistent onshore breeze keeping temps along the coast between 65-70 and inland 70-75. The air will still be very comfortable with low levels of humidity.
Wouldn't it be sweet if this lasted through the weekend? Sorry, it's not. A coldfront will be working in from the west Saturday morning with a band of showers and embedded thunder. The rain will get enhanced by a deep fetch of moist air from the south and by a developing surface low along that front. This will effectively slow the frontal passage down leading to an extended period of rain that will last from late morning through most of the afternoon...much of Saturday looks wet. There is a chance that the arrival of rain slows down especially with the surface low development along the front but right now it appears it will develop right over us and not to our west.
The entire system should slide far enough NE of us so that we see a window of good weather on Sunday, but it's a small window and showers can't be ruled out at this point yet.
Next week the pattern flip-flops from the warm one we are in now to a much colder one. Large scale blocking in Eastern Canada will shove colder air south into the Northeast and temps will be about 10 degrees below normal...around 60 Monday through Wednesday. Along with the chilly temps, an onshore breeze will keep clouds locked in along with occasional wet weather.
