7:00 AM | Unsettled weather pattern begins today and continues into Friday...weekend looking nice

6-Day Philly Forecast

Today

Increasing clouds, seasonably warm, cannot rule out a couple of showers during the mid-day and afternoon hours; especially, to the southwest of the metro region (e.g., southern Chester County), near 80 degrees

Tonight

Mainly cloudy, mild, showers are likely, maybe a thunderstorms, some of the rain can come down hard at times, lows in the middle 60’s

Thursday

Mainly cloudy, a bit cooler and more humid, showers likely; primarily, during the morning hours, maybe a thunderstorm, mid 70's

Thursday Night

Mainly cloudy, mild, showers still possible, maybe a thunderstorm, low 60’s

Friday

Partly sunny, comfortable, chance of a lingering shower or two, near 80 degrees

Saturday

Mainly sunny, nice, near 80 degrees

Sunday

Mainly sunny, pleasant, near 80 degrees

Monday

Mainly sunny, a bit warmer, mid 80’s

Discussion

After a couple of nice and quiet days to start the week, the weather in the Mid-Atlantic region will become unsettled later today and for the next couple of days. An upper-level disturbance combined with a nearby surface low pressure system will bring about an increasing chance for showers and thunderstorms beginning later today and extending into the late week time period. The weekend, however, has a good chance of turning out quite nice as high pressure will sprawl out across the Northeast US. At the same time, low pressure will try to form near or just off the Southeast coastline, but it looks like the high pressure system will win out around here during both days of the weekend.

Elsewhere, strong upper-level ridging will set up over the Southwest US this weekend and this pattern will bring tremendous heat to portions of that part of the country in the Sunday-Tuesday time period. For example, Phoenix, Arizona could reach 120 degrees by late in the weekend and Death Valley, California has an outside chance to top out at 130 degrees by early next week - a feat not reached there since 1913.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian

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