SHORT TERM FORECAST

TUESDAY: Becoming partly to mostly sunny, breezy, and warm. High: 82

TUESDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy, still a bit breezy, and mild with showers possible towards morning. Low: 58

WEDNESDAY: Overcast. Rainy. Breezy. Cooler, but seasonable. High: 68

 

FORECAST SUMMARY

Our Tuesday started with a quick shower, but it will end up being the warmest and one of the sunniest days of the week. Temperatures will push towards the lower 80’s for a nice summer-like feeling day. Tomorrow is when our major change up comes with cooler (but seasonable around the upper 60’s) temperatures, cloudy skies, and rain showers. Thursday will slowly give us that sunshine back after a lingering AM shower, but will end up being one of the coolest days of the week with highs in the lower 60’s.

DETAILED FORECAST

TUESDAY

This will certainly be the warmest day of the week, and warmest day for a while, with highs expected to be above 80 degrees, for the first time since April 16-17th. While there could some clouds or a spotty shower first thing in the morning around sunrise, skies should quickly become partly to mostly sunny for the balance of the day. Outside of a spotty late day shower north/west of the I-81 corridor, the daytime hours should be mostly dry, with sunshine allowing highs to climb to around 80-85° by afternoon. It will be another breezy day with southwest winds around 15-20mph, gusting to 30mph, which coupled with the dryness could lead to elevated fire danger across the area during the day. 

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY

Wednesday gets the nod as the wettest day of the week, as a cold front slowly approaches and makes its way through the area. Expect a cloudy, cooler, and wetter day with periods of rain developing Wednesday morning, and continuing into the afternoon before tapering off to scattered showers or drizzle by Wednesday night. As a weak wave of low pressure develops along that front Thursday, we could see some light rain or rain showers redevelop on Thursday, especially from the Lehigh Valley south and east, but it won’t be as wet as Wednesday for most. Highs will drop back into the upper 60s on Wednesday, and fall back farther into the low 60s on Thursday. Rainfall amounts from both days combined look to be around a ½ inch on average, less south and east of the Lehigh Valley, a little more points north and west. 

FRIDAY

We should be able to sneak in a mainly dry day on Friday, but it will be cool and a bit breezy as our mid-week system departs. Expect partly sunny skies, with a westerly breeze around 10-15mph with gusts to 20-25mph. Highs will be in the low 60s once again, about 10 degrees cooler than our early May average high (low 70s). 

MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND

While mom’s big weekend won’t be the warm sunshine she deserves, the news isn’t all bad either, especially for Sunday. On Saturday, yet another system will come out of the Great Lakes and slide on through. While it won’t be a prolific rainmaker, it should produce a mainly cloudy and cool Saturday with at least some showers around. Rainfall amounts look to be under a quarter of an inch, with highs kind of cool thanks to plentiful clouds, mostly in the low to mid 60s. We’ll try to tuck in a partly sunny and mostly dry Mother’s Day on Sunday, with highs inching up towards 70 degrees, before more rain likely arrives later Sunday night and Monday. 

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