Low pressure will push off the Carolina coast today and it looks like its precipitation field will extend north and west to the I-95 corridor. As a result, clouds will be plentiful through early afternoon and there can be a couple of showers in the DC-to-Philly-to-NYC corridor…some clearing late in the day. High pressure is in control for the next couple of days and then one cold front crosses the Mid-Atlantic on Wednesday night and a second one on Friday night.
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Low pressure will push off the Carolina coast today and it looks like its precipitation field will extend north and west to the I-95 corridor. As a result, clouds will be plentiful through early afternoon and there can be a couple of showers in the DC-to-Philly-to-NYC corridor…some clearing late in the day. High pressure is in control for the next couple of days and then one cold front crosses the Mid-Atlantic on Wednesday night and a second one on Friday night.
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Rapid changes in weather can be experienced in the northeastern US during the latter stages of October as to the west, cold Canadian air masses begin to regularly drop from Canada into the Northern Plains/Upper Midwest and to the east, the Atlantic Ocean remains relatively warm as it loses its stored summer heat more slowly than the continent. In fact, hurricanes can still form over the still relatively warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the contrast between the increasingly frequent cold air masses to the west and the warmth to the east often results in powerful storms just offshore. In late October 1991, several ingredients converged to create an immensely powerful storm that took on a few names including “The Halloween Nor’easter” or the “Unnamed Hurricane”. The most well-known name for this storm, however, is “The Perfect Storm” with a book and subsequent film of the same name.
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The powerful storm system that brought heavy rain and strong winds to the area on Thursday has pushed off to our northeast and there should be some sunshine today in its wake today. But the bigger story will be the howling winds on our Halloween Day which can gust to 50 mph from a west-to-northwest direction…power outages are on the table. A very tight pressure gradient is now developing between the powerful departing storm system and an incoming high pressure system over the Northern Plains. High pressure will be in control of the weather this weekend resulting in cool, dry conditions, but winds will still be somewhat of a factor on Saturday.
One final note...it is time once again to turn the clocks back an hour...early Sunday morning.
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The main theme of the overall weather pattern for the next several days is “dry” with no rain or snow on the horizon. It’ll be on the cool side for another day, but then it turns warmer this weekend with highs by Sunday afternoon likely to be well up in the 70’s.
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The powerful storm system that brought heavy rain and strong winds to the area on Thursday has pushed off to our northeast and there should be some sunshine today in its wake today. But the bigger story will be the howling winds on our Halloween Day which can gust to 50 mph from a west-to-northwest direction…power outages are on the table. A very tight pressure gradient is now developing between the powerful departing storm system and an incoming high pressure system over the Northern Plains. High pressure will be in control of the weather this weekend resulting in cool, dry conditions, but winds will still be somewhat of a factor on Saturday.
One final note...it is time once again to turn the clocks back an hour...early Sunday morning.
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The powerful storm system that brought heavy rain and strong winds to the area on Thursday has pushed off to our northeast and there should be some sunshine today in its wake today. But the bigger story will be the howling winds on our Halloween Day which can gust to 45 mph from a west-to-northwest direction…power outages are on the table. A very tight pressure gradient is now developing between the powerful departing storm system and an incoming high pressure system over the Northern Plains. High pressure will be in control of the weather this weekend resulting in cool, dry conditions, but winds will still be somewhat of a factor on Saturday.
One final note...it is time once again to turn the clocks back an hour...early Sunday morning.
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The main theme of the overall weather pattern for the next several days is “dry” with no rain or snow on the horizon. It’ll be on the cool side for the next couple of days, but then it turns warmer this weekend with highs by Sunday afternoon likely to be well up in the 70’s.
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Strong low pressure pushes into the northeastern states today and we’ll have windy and cool conditions in its wake across the Tennessee Valley. Temperatures later today are likely to reach the middle or upper 50’s for afternoon highs and then could edge into the 60’s on Friday. Patchy frost is possible late tomorrow night and again late tomorrow night in a few valley regions with overnight lows in the 30’s.
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A powerful storm system will produce strong winds in the Mid-Atlantic region and periods of rain today which will be heavy at times…there can be a strong-to-severe thunderstorm as well. The rain tapers off to isolated showers by early tonight, but the strong winds will continue as the storm system pushes off to the northeast of here. Winds remain very strong on Friday (Halloween Day) with gusts to 45 mph to go along with sunshine and cool conditions. The weekend will be dry and cool with sunshine on both days and afternoon highs likely in the mid-to-upper 50’s.
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