7:00 AM | ****Heavy rainfall event at mid-week with the remains of Hurricane Ida****
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania metro region
Today
Low clouds and patchy fog early today then becoming partly sunny, warm, humid, chance of mid-day or afternoon showers and thunderstorms, highs in the mid-to-upper 80’s; W winds at 5-10 mph
Tonight
Mainly cloudy, mild, muggy, chance of showers and thunderstorms, lows in the upper 60’s
Tuesday
Partly sunny, warm, humid, chance of showers and thunderstorms, lower 80’s for afternoon highs
Tuesday Night
Mainly cloudy, mild, muggy, chance of showers and thunderstorms; especially, towards morning, upper 60’s for late night lows
Wednesday
Mainly cloudy, cooler, humid, becoming windy, periods of rain and possible thunderstorms, the potential exists for significant precipitation amounts through Wednesday night and localized flash flooding, mid 70’s
Thursday
Mainly cloudy early in the day with the chance of lingering showers and thunderstorms associated with the remnants of Ida, partly sunny in the afternoon, on the cool side, breezy, mid 70’s
Friday
Mainly sunny, pleasant, mid 70’s
Saturday
Mainly sunny, still comfortable, upper 70’s
Discussion
“Major” Hurricane Ida slammed into Louisiana on Sunday as a category 4 storm and the remnants will move slowly to the north today and then to the northeast over the next couple of days. A stalling frontal system will generate scattered showers and thunderstorms later today and tonight in the Mid-Atlantic region and then will act as a pathway for Ida’s tremendous levels of moisture to push in here at mid-week. Significant rainfall will push into the Tennessee Valley over the next 24 hours and then reach the Mid-Atlantic region and Northeast US from later Wednesday to early Thursday. Rainfall amounts of up to several inches is possible in the Mid-Atlantic region and given the already well saturated grounds, flash flooding is a strong likelihood in many areas. Cooler, drier air pushes in for the late week on the heels of the mid-week tropical rainfall event with highs generally confined to the 70’s.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Peraton
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