Though Memorial Day weekend is considered the unofficial kick-off to the summer season, the weather felt more like a callback to fall for the past two days, with heavy rainfall and temperatures barely above 50 degrees across the Lehigh Valley region.<\/p>\n
According to the National Weather Service, between one and two inches of rain fell across Lehigh and Northampton counties between Friday and Sunday. Slatington and Coopersburg saw some of the highest reported rainfall totals, with 1.42 inches within a 48-hour period, but nowhere in the valley was spared from at least an inch of rainfall.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at rainfall totals throughout the region:<\/p>\n
Lehighton, 1.52 in
\nPalmerton, 1.37 in
\nSlatington, 1.42 in
\nCoopersburg, 1.42 in
\nZionsville, 1.38 in
\nSchnecksville, 1.32 in
\nEmmaus, 1.20 in
\nBreinigsville, 1.10 in
\nAllentown, 1.04 in
\nBethlehem, 1.04
\nWhitehall, 1.02
\nEast Stroudsburg, 1.35 in
\nSaylorsburg, 1.18 in
\nEaston, 1.24 in
\nMount Bethel, 1.23 in
\nPortland, 1.22 in
\nTatamy, 1.17 in
\nMartins Creek, 1.11
\nBATH, 1.11 in<\/p>\n
Expect more pleasant conditions later this week, however. While scattered thunderstorms and showers are expected Monday before 11 a.m., precipitation should clear up this afternoon and temperatures could reach a high of 75 degrees, according to the National Weather Service\u2019s forecast for Allentown.<\/p>\n
Skies should clear and temperatures should rise later into the week, too. Tuesday and Wednesday will see clear skies and highs above 80 degrees. Slightly cooler highs in the 70s are expected later into the week, and no rain is in the forecast for the next several days.<\/p>\n
Here is the extended forecast from the National Weather Service for Allentown.<\/p>\n
Today: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 10 a.m., then a chance of showers between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Patchy fog before noon. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 75. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a 10th of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.<\/p>\n
Tonight: Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. Calm wind.<\/p>\n
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. Calm wind.<\/p>\n
Tuesday night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. Calm wind.<\/p>\n
Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 83. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Wednesday night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60.<\/p>\n
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 76.<\/p>\n
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 76.<\/p>\n
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 75.<\/p>\n
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 74.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though Memorial Day weekend is considered the unofficial kick-off to the summer season, the weather felt more like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,182,139,432,1133],"class_list":["post-202152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}