Sometimes during the month of June, the jet stream retreats safely to the north into Canada, and the weather settles down across the continental US...that certainly does not appear to the case this years. Upper-level troughs of low pressure and colder-than-normal air masses continue to drop into the US from Canada, and this is resulting in severe weather outbreaks and there will be an enhanced threat during the next two days. Next week promises to feature a very impressive upper-level trough by June standards that will no doubt be impactful with more severe weather threats and widespread cooler-than-normal conditions.
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The threat of localized flooding will continue today with additional showers and thunderstorms in the Tennessee Valley following some excessive rainfall amounts on Sunday which left very saturated soil conditions. The remainder of the week will feature very warm and humid conditions with high pressure positioned over the western Atlantic.
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Nearby high pressure will dominate the weather scene during the next couple of days and then it’ll shift off the coast at mid-week opening the door for some very warm air to move into the Mid-Atlantic along with noticeably higher humidity levels. It’ll also become unsettled for the second half of the week with the possibility of showers and thunderstorms on Wednesday and Thursday, and Friday could present the chance for severe weather as a strong frontal system arrives. Temperatures will start the new work week at comfortably warm levels, but then rise into the uncomfortable low-to-mid 90’s during the second half of the week.
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Nearby high pressure will dominate the weather scene during the next couple of days and then it’ll shift off the coast at mid-week opening the door for some very warm air to move into the Mid-Atlantic along with noticeably higher humidity levels. It’ll also become unsettled for the second half of the week with the possibility of showers and thunderstorms on Wednesday and Thursday, and Friday could present the chance for severe weather as a strong frontal system arrives. Temperatures will start the new work week at comfortably warm levels, but then rise into the uncomfortable lower 90’s during the second half of the week.
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Nearby high pressure will dominate the weather scene during the next couple of days and then it’ll shift off the coast at mid-week opening the door for some very warm air to move into the Mid-Atlantic along with noticeably higher humidity levels. It’ll also become unsettled for the second half of the week with the possibility of showers and thunderstorms on Wednesday and Thursday, and Friday could present the chance for severe weather as a strong frontal system arrives. Temperatures will start the new work week at comfortably warm levels, but then rise into the uncomfortable low-to-mid 90’s during the second half of the week.
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High pressure off the east coast will control the weather through tomorrow and temperatures will soar to 90+ degrees in many spots along the I-95 corridor. Clouds will tend to increase on Saturday as a frontal system approaches the Mid-Atlantic region and showers and thunderstorms are possible at night. While there can be some lingering shower on Sunday, much - if not all - of the day should be rain-free to close out the weekend. Quite warm and dry weather should dominate the scene early next week as a new high pressure system takes control in the Mid-Atlantic region.
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High pressure off the east coast will control the weather through tomorrow and temperatures will soar to 90+ degrees in many spots along the I-95 corridor. Clouds will tend to increase on Saturday as a frontal system approaches the Mid-Atlantic region and showers and thunderstorms are possible at night. While there can be a lingering shower on Sunday, much - if not all - of the day should be rain-free to close out the weekend. Quite warm and dry weather should dominate the scene early next week as a new high pressure system takes control in the Mid-Atlantic region.
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High pressure off the east coast will control the weather through tomorrow and temperatures will soar to 90+ degrees in many spots along the I-95 corridor. Clouds will tend to increase on Saturday as a frontal system approaches the Mid-Atlantic region and showers and thunderstorms are possible at night. While there can be some lingering shower on Sunday, much - if not all - of the day should be rain-free to close out the weekend. Quite warm and dry weather should dominate the scene early next week as a new high pressure system takes control in the Mid-Atlantic region.
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Warmer air has pushed into the Mid-Atlantic region on the backside of high pressure that is headed to the western Atlantic Ocean. Temperatures today should reach the upper 80s around here, the lower 90’s on Friday and the low-to-mid 90’s on Saturday. An upper-level trough of low pressure will approach the area later this weekend and bring us the chance of showers and thunderstorms on Saturday night. The threat of showers will continue on Sunday…maybe a PM thunderstorm…but much of the day should be rain-free.
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With thousands of lives on the line, there is no doubt that the weather forecast made for the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France during World War II was the most important of all-time and one of the most difficult as well given the lack of sophisticated forecasting tools that we enjoy in today’s world. The first satellite image was still nearly sixteen years away (TIROS on April 1, 1960) and reliable computer forecast models were still decades away. This Saturday, June 6th, marks the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day invasion and the weather forecast for that historic event makes for quite an interesting story in what turned out to be a pivotal moment in world history.
And now, the weather forecast for this historical event and the intense pressure behind it has been captured in a movie appropriately named “Pressure” which focuses on the 72 hours leading up to the D-Day landings. Years of detailed planning went into the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, but success hinged on one element that no military commander could control — the weather. Defying his colleagues, Captain James Martin Stagg advised General Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower to postpone the invasion of Normandy by one day from June 5th to June 6th because of uncertain weather conditions in a weather forecast that changed the course of World War II and altered world history.
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