NYC Quiet Week Continues Then Weekend Cold Rain
Good morning everyone. Our quiet week continues, with sunny skies all the way into Friday. The next system approaches on Saturday, and that remains unviable for snow in the NYC area. Instead, a cold rain will blanket the area as yet another low pressure system takes a hostile path, with poor timing, and isn’t strong enough. Sorry snow lovers.
SATELLITE
Sunny skies pretty much rule through Thursday, with varying temps. We continue our journey through the week with low 30’s today, but lighter winds will help keep things feeling less chilly. Overnight, we dip back into the 20’s though with a little nip in the air.
REGIONAL RADAR
Tomorrow looks sunny and dry as well, but we modify back to average with highs in the upper 30’s, and lows in the mid to upper 20’s.
LOCAL RADAR NEW YORK CITY
On Thursday, we enter the low to mid 40’s, and that’ll probably be the best day of the week in terms of sunshine and slightly above average temps.
Friday we go mid 40’s, but clouds will increase late.
LOCAL RADAR PHILADELPHIA
Our weekend system is not what it’s supposed to be if you got excited too early with overzealous models and social media. An area of disturbed weather emerges from the lower Rockies and taps into some gulf moisture, but low pressure travels west and north of us before trying to transfer energy to the coast.
At this point, the transfer looks successful but weak. It also comes at a time that cold air is modifying, so there’s not much to work with. Had low pressure arrived earlier when cold air was better entrenched, we probably would’ve have a snow to rain scenario as the path isn’t very snow-friendly.
Add to the mix that low pressure is too weak to pull down the remaining cold air, and you have yourself a cloudy & raw Saturday, with cold rain for the NYC Metro Area. The jury is still out for areas N&W of the NYC as far as snow or mix, so we’ll keep an eye out for that for our listeners in the sticks and chipmunk territory.
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