Friday, April 4, 2008

Cooler and Wet Weekend

In the post below, Kira mentioned the possibility of rain linger into Sunday. Well that now seems to be more likely. Yesterday when I was working most of the computer models moved the front far enough offshore for Sunday to keep us under sunny skies. Now it looks like an upper-level ridge over the Western Atlantic will be strong enough to hold the front along the coast Saturday into Sunday. Areas of low pressure will ride along the front bringing us rain chances Saturday into Sunday.

Now I don't think it will be all day steady rains but more like periods of rain with breaks every now and then. I think the best chance for the steady rains will be early Saturday morning and then again overnight Saturday and Sunday morning. Some far Northern areas may see very little rain as the front is further away form these locations. The axis of the highest rain amounts look to be across Central and Southern Delmarva this weekend. There could be additional rainfall amounts of 1.5 inches before we clear out. I'm sure the local farmers would love the rain.

Temperatures do cool off to 60 on Saturday behind the front and even cooler for Sunday. Expect highs on Sunday in the upper 40s to near 50 with breezy North winds.

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