Halloween will look like much of this week in the Lehigh Valley: dry and sunny with highs in the 60s.<\/p>\n
Clear skies and highs in the 60s and 70s are expected every day through this week, according to the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey.<\/p>\n
\u201cA picture-perfect week lies ahead with dry conditions expected throughout. Temperatures will also be warming with highs in the low to mid 70s by Friday,\u201d the weather service posted on social media. \u201cEnjoy the week all!\u201d<\/p>\n
There is a possibility of rain early next week, which would be the first rainfall in over two weeks. The last rainfall was on Oct. 16, when .25 inches of rain fell. Just under 2 inches of rain have fallen this month, below the normal of 3.6 inches, according to weather service data.<\/p>\n
Rainfall has been above average in the Lehigh Valley over the last 90 days, and neither county has drought conditions.<\/p>\n
Here is the extended forecast from the National Weather Service:<\/p>\n
Wednesday: Increasing clouds, with a high near 64. Calm wind.<\/p>\n
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 70. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 74.<\/p>\n
Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 68.<\/p>\n
Sunday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 69.<\/p>\n
Monday: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 69. Chance of precipitation is 50%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halloween will look like much of this week in the Lehigh Valley: dry and sunny with highs in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,182,139,432,1133],"class_list":["post-315283","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\/315283","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=315283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}