7:00 AM | **Severe weather threat late today/early tonight which can contain damaging wind gusts, hail and torrential rainfall...excessively wet pattern continues into next week**
Paul Dorian
6-Day Philadelphia Forecast
Today
Partly sunny, becoming very warm and humid, showers and thunderstorms should hold off until the end of the afternoon, any storm that forms late today can be severe and flooding rainfall is a possibility, highs in the upper 80’s
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms the evening hours, any storm that forms this evening can be severe and flooding rainfall is a possibility, mild, lows in the lower 60’s
Wednesday
Mainly cloudy, much cooler, chance of showers and thunderstorms, near 70 degrees for afternoon highs
Wednesday Night
Mainly cloudy with a chance of showers, maybe a thunderstorm, mild, upper 50’s for overnight lows
Thursday
Mainly cloudy, mild, chance of showers and thunderstorms, low-to-mid 70’s
Friday
Mainly cloudy, cooler, chance of showers, mid-to-upper 60’s
Saturday
Mainly cloudy, warmer, chance of showers and thunderstorms, low-to-mid 70’s
Sunday
Mainly cloudy, warm, chance of showers and thunderstorms, near 80 degrees
Discussion
Severe thunderstorms are a late day/evening threat as a cool front approaches the area from the northwest. Any storm late today/early tonight can contain damaging wind gusts and hail and the rainfall with this system can produce flash flooding in some spots. Temperatures should soar today to summer-like levels in the upper 80’s following the passage of a warm frontal system and there will be higher humidity values as well. This front will stall just to our south tomorrow and remain in close proximity for the next several days resulting in additional rounds of showers and thunderstorms going into the early part of next week. In addition to the instability caused by the nearby frontal boundary zone, tropical moisture from the Southeast US will become intertwined in the overall weather pattern enhancing our chances for excessive rainfall amounts between now and early next week.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Vencore, Inc.
vencoreweather.com