What About the Weekend?
An intense mid-level vort max along with a surface coldfront is providing lift for some briefly intense showers this evening. In fact, a mini squall line has developed and is also producing wind gusts over 40 mph, strong enough to knock out power for some communities! This system is the leading edge of another chilly airmass that we'll be in for the second half of the week.
Tomorrow morning, there won't be a cloud in the sky but by late morning cumulus will start to grow and they will cast lots of shadows during the second half of the day. Winds will stay strong enough to put a chill in the air too...highs in the 50-55 range but in the shade it will feel like 40-45. Similar conditions are expected on Friday too.
A storm system will exit the SE US on Friday with lots of moisture it will be well south of the area but the cold trough over the Northeast will attempt to capture it over the ocean and draw it north and eventually west. Typically weather systems travel west to east so an east to west path is quite rare. But with the trough cutting off over the Northeast the two may be able to do a little dance around each other sucking the offshore storm back to the west. This is tough to do but a possible solution and if it were to occur clouds would increase and some light showers would spread in by the end of Easter Sunday.
