6:15 AM | ****Occasional heavy showers, embedded thunderstorms, more flooding potential, strong winds, isolated tornadoes...tropical depression passes by to our west...meteor shower****
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Philadelphia, PA metro region
Today
Mainly cloudy, warmer, humid, occasional heavy showers and embedded thunderstorms, some of the rain can be heavy and there is continuing flooding potential, highs near 80 degrees; E-SE winds increasing to 10-20 mph; gusts to 45 mph
Tonight
Mainly cloudy in the evening with occasional showers and possible thunderstorms, some of the rain can be heavy, some clearing after midnight, mild, humid, windy, lows in the upper 60’s
Saturday
Becoming mainly sunny, comfortably warm, quite breezy, lower 80’s for afternoon highs
Saturday Night
Mainly clear, mild, lower 60’s for late night lows
Sunday
Mainly sunny, comfortably warm, near 80 degrees
Monday
Mainly sunny, comfortably warm, near 80 degrees
Tuesday
Mainly sunny, comfortably warm, low-to-mid 80’s
Wednesday
Mainly sunny, warm, middle 80’s
Discussion
A tropical depression will pass to the west of here around mid-day bringing additional heavy showers, embedded thunderstorms, continuing flooding potential, and strong winds through the evening hours…isolated tornadoes are also on the table. Scattered power outages are possible given the combination of saturated grounds and wind gusts potentially up to 45 mph or so. A band of very heavy rain last night pushed from northern Delaware through much of central Chester County and produced 5+ inches of rain in some spots and there was at least one confirmed tornado. The tropical system will continue its acceleration to the north-northeast that began late yesterday and, as such, will clear out of here by later tonight leading to big improvement on Saturday and also nice weather on Sunday. In fact, the nice weather that begins here early this weekend should continue right into the middle part of next week.
On another note, the annual Perseid meteor shower will peak late this Sunday night and early Monday morning and weather conditions should be quite favorable for viewing. For more details on the meteor shower, check out the blog here.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather