Northeast faces another soggy weekend as stalled storm threatens rain for days
NEW YORK – If the weekend forecast in the Northeast sounds familiar, that’s because it is.More rain and thunderstorms are expected across the region, marking the sixth out of the past seven weekends that precipitation is in the forecast.Due to the front’s slow advancement, much of Saturday could remain relatively dry along the I-95 corridor as temps soar into the 80s, making it feel more like summer.
But storms are likely to break out across the interior Northeast and mid-Atlantic Saturday afternoon before racing toward the coast during the evening hours.Any storms that do develop in this unstable environment will have the ability to produce damaging winds and some large hail, prompting a level 1 out of 5 risk on NOAA Storm Prediction Center’s Severe Weather Outlook scale for Saturday.An upgrade to the risk can’t be ruled out given the dynamics at play, according to the FOX Forecast Center.“So, Saturday, we do have the risk of some thunderstorms,” FOX Weather Meteorologist Melissa Torres said.
“And that goes from Boston all the way down into the northern part of Florida.”That includes the Philadelphia area into Boston and Washington, D.C.“It’s going to be really rumbly for the City of Brotherly Love,” said FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.“Any sort of outdoor plans (Saturday) night should really be (re)considered.”The FOX Forecast Center said that there is high confidence that it will rain on Saturday, but details beyond that remain extremely uncertain.As we get into Sunday, the forecast gets tricky as confidence is increasing in a stalled low pressure center breaking off from the main flow of the jet stream and meandering over the Ohio Valley for several days.This type of setup is a hallmark for long-duration rain events as the counterclockwise flow around the low works in tandem with clockwise flow around a high pressure center that’s blocking it to the east.
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