7:00 AM | ****Heavy rainfall event at mid-week with the remains of Hurricane Ida****
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the New York City metro region
Today
Low clouds and patchy fog early today then remaining mainly cloudy, warm, humid, chance of PM showers and thunderstorms, highs in the mid-to-upper 80’s; SW winds at 5-10 mph
Tonight
Mainly cloudy, mild, muggy, chance of showers and thunderstorms, lows in the lower 70’s
Tuesday
Partly sunny, warm, humid, slight chance of showers and thunderstorms, mid 80’s for afternoon highs
Tuesday Night
Mainly cloudy, mild, muggy, chance of showers and thunderstorms towards daybreak, upper 60’s for late night lows
Wednesday
Mainly cloudy, cooler, humid, becoming windy, periods of rain developing with possible thunderstorms, the potential exists for significant precipitation amounts through Wednesday night with localized flash flooding, mid-to-upper 70’s
Thursday
Mainly cloudy in the AM with the chance of lingering showers and thunderstorms, partly sunny by late in the day, some of the early day rain can be heavy, on the cool side, breezy, mid-to-upper 70’s
Friday
Mainly sunny, pleasant, mid-to-upper 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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