6:15 AM | ****Uncomfortably warm and humid today and tomorrow with strong-to-severe storms a threat on both days...high heat and humidity from Sunday through Wednesday****
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Philadelphia, PA metro region
Today
Mainly cloudy with a couple of showers this morning and areas of fog, much warmer and very humid, good chance of PM showers and thunderstorms, some of the rain can be heavy and any thunderstorm can reach strong-to-severe levels, highs in the low-to-mid 80’s; S-SW winds increasing to 5-15 mph
Tonight
Mainly cloudy, mild, chance of showers and thunderstorms, some of the rain can be heavy and any thunderstorm can reach strong-to-severe levels, lows not far from 70 degrees
Thursday
Partly sunny, very warm, humid, chance of showers and PM thunderstorms, some of the rain can be heavy and any thunderstorm can reach strong-to-severe levels, near 90 degrees for afternoon highs
Thursday Night
Mainly cloudy, mild, muggy, chance of showers and thunderstorms, some of the rain can be heavy and any thunderstorm can reach strong-to-severe levels, near 65 degrees for late night lows
Friday
Mainly sunny, warm, low-to-mid 80’s
Saturday
Mainly sunny, quite warm, mid-to-upper 80’s
Sunday
Mainly sunny, hot, near 90 degrees
Monday
Mainly sunny, quite hot, middle 90’s
Discussion
After a cool start to the week, it’ll turn much warmer for today and Thursday in the Mid-Atlantic region and humidity will be a noticeable factor as well. The warm-up comes ahead of a strong frontal system which can produce strong-to-severe thunderstorms around here this afternoon and then additional strong-to-severe thunderstorms are likely later tomorrow.
After a sunny and warm day to end the work week, very strong high pressure ridging in the upper part of the atmosphere will push eastward this weekend. This system will end up directly overhead in the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast US by the early part of next week and likely stay put until at least the middle of next week. As a result, high heat and humidity is on the way for the northeastern states in the period from later this weekend into the middle of next week and 100-degrees is on the table.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather