Temperatures are expected to reach the 90s later this week in the Lehigh Valley while the area remains largely dry.<\/p>\n
The pleasant weather from the weekend will continue to start the week, with highs in the mid-70s Monday and Tuesday. It will be a different story by the weekend, with highs expected to reaching into low 90s Friday and Saturday, according to the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Rain won\u2019t enter the forecast until Sunday either.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome precipitation could be possible by the weekend, but confidence remains low at this time,\u201d meteorologists wrote Monday in their daily forecast discussion<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lehigh and Northampton counties are still under drought conditions, despite the rainfall over Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n About 2.2 inches of rain fell during the month of May, which is about 1.5 inches below normal, according to weather service data<\/a>. Both counties have had about 3 inches below normal rainfall over the past six months, according to the data<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the extended forecast from the National Weather Service:<\/p>\n Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 75. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph in the afternoon.<\/p>\n Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 80. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph.<\/p>\n Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 85.<\/p>\n Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 90.<\/p>\n Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 90.<\/p>\n Sunday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 88. Chance of precipitation is 30%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Temperatures are expected to reach the 90s later this week in the Lehigh Valley while the area remains…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,433,182,139,434,28,432,1133],"class_list":["post-207422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207422","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=207422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}