A much colder air mass pushed into the region in the overnight hours and the next couple of days will feature well below-normal temperatures for the very beginning of the month of April. Widespread frost is pretty likely across the region late tonight and again late tomorrow night during this abnormal early April cold air outbreak. The late week chill will ease noticeably this weekend with plenty of sunshine expected on both Saturday and Sunday.
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Soaking rain is headed to the Mid-Atlantic region for later today, tonight and early Thursday and it will be followed by an impressive cold blast for the beginning of the month of April. Temperatures will drop sharply late tonight/early tomorrow following the passage of a strong cold front and winds will become increasingly strong from a northwesterly direction. This cold air outbreak will result in accumulating snow on Thursday across interior sections of the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast US from West Virginia to northern New England and some snow can actually fall all the way down into the immediate I-95 corridor. Temperatures late tomorrow night and again late Friday night are likely to fall to or just below the freezing mark in many spots, but the unusual chill will ease during the upcoming Easter weekend. One final note, tomorrow is Opening Day for Major League Baseball in many Mid-Atlantic/Northeast US locations…if attending one of these games, better bring a winter coat.
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The big weather news across the eastern part of the nation for the next few days will be the arrival of a much colder-than-normal air mass for the beginning of the month of April. Today will be the transition day around here with much colder air to push in by the overnight hours and temperatures by early Thursday won’t be far from the freezing mark. Showers and thunderstorms are possible today as the strong cold front pushes in this direction with low pressure forming along the frontal boundary zone. Widespread frost is likely across the region late Thursday night and again late Friday night during this abnormal early April cold air outbreak. The unusual late week chill will ease noticeably as we progress through the upcoming Easter weekend.
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Another soaking rain event is headed to the region extending from the Tennessee Valley to the Mid-Atlantic and it will be followed by an impressive cold blast for the beginning of April. The soaking rain will push northeastward on Wednesday from the Tennessee Valley into the Mid-Atlantic; primarily, for the afternoon and nighttime hours. All of this activity will take place just ahead of a strong cold front which will usher in much colder air for Thursday and Friday and there can even be some accumulating snow when it arrives; primarily, across interior sections of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast US.
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The big weather news for the second half of the week will be the arrival on late Wednesday night of much colder-than-normal air for the beginning of the month of April. Temperatures following a strong cold frontal passage are likely to drop to near the freezing mark early Thursday and widespread frost is possible late Thursday night and again late Friday night. The unusual late week chill will ease as we progress through the upcoming Easter weekend.
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A weak system will push to the northeast from the Southeast US over the next couple of days and it could produce some showers around here on Tuesday. By the middle of the week, a strong cold front will drop southeastward and reach our area likely to be associated with showers and thunderstorms. Much cooler air will be ushered into the Tennessee Valley by the passage of this frontal system on Thursday and Friday and this can even result in widespread frost as we begin the month of April.
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After the severe weather of yesterday, much calmer conditions are coming to the Tennessee Valley as we close out the work week, but the calm will be short-lived. The weekend will become quite unstable with the threat for showers and thunderstorms on Saturday, Saturday night and Sunday morning ahead of the next strong frontal system. Given the heavy rainfall of yesterday, flash flooding will likely be a serious threat over the weekend with the additional heavy rainfall expected. A cold front moves through the region later in the day on Sunday bringing us some relief as we start the new work week, but even that looks to be short-lived.
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The first significant severe weather outbreak of the season took place last week across the Deep South and Tennessee Valley with more than 50 tornadoes recorded and there will be a repeat performance today in much of the same general part of the country. Numerous ingredients are coming together for a widespread severe weather outbreak from later today into tonight extending from the Deep South-to-the Tennessee Valley-to-the Ohio Valley. The focus of the action today will likely be in states like Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee where severe weather can include large hail, damaging wind gusts and several long-track strong tornadoes. The system that is the main culprit behind today’s severe weather outbreak will push into the eastern Great Lakes by later tonight and winds could gust past 50 mph on Friday in the Mid-Atlantic region.
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*Another dangerous set up for the Deep South*
With a deep moist layer of air in place, widespread showers and thunderstorms are likely from today into tonight. Some of the rain will be heavy at times with localized flooding a threat. There is also a decent chance that some of the thunderstorms today can reach severe levels with downpours, damaging wind gusts, hail and even isolated tornadoes on the table. A strong cool front will clear the area by early tomorrow paving the way for nice weather to end the work week, but there will be a more instability this weekend – and chance of more showers and storms.
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Last week, the first significant severe weather outbreak of the season so far took place in the Deep South/Tennessee Valley with more than 50 tornadoes recorded and tomorrow may bring a repeat performance in the same general region. On Thursday and Thursday night, there is the potential for an outbreak of severe thunderstorms across states like Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee and the threat will include large hail, damaging wind gusts and several long-track strong tornadoes. Numerous ingredients will come together on Thursday to generate very strong upward motion in the atmosphere needed for a widespread severe weather outbreak. These ingredients will include a strong low-level jet streak, sharp surface temperature gradient, rapidly strengthening surface low pressure, and an influx of low-level very warm and humid air from the Gulf of Mexico into the Deep South/Tennessee Valley. The severe weather threat will shift into the Ohio Valley by late tomorrow night.
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