This last weekend was great! We finally got a nice break from the heat, high humidity, and storms. Yesterday we topped off in the mid 80s, and the humidity was low for this time of year.
Today we’ll still have a decent day, but there will be some slight changes. The first change already happened this morning. An area of low pressure in the northeast has been edging west. The Chesapeake Bay is on the edge of this low (more or less). So there were a few rain showers over the Middle Peninsula and Eastern Shore this morning.
A small area of high pressure lies overhead. After the showers fall apart this morning, we should only have a stray shower or storm this afternoon.
We’ll be partly cloudy for the majority of the day and area, but some isolated showers and storms will be possible again this afternoon. We’ll have a southwest breeze at 5-15mph. This will increase the humidity. It will go from low to moderate. High temps will be in the upper 80s.
Tomorrow a warm front will skim the region and move to our north. We’ll heat up even more with high temps in the upper 80s to low 90s.
The dew points will rise back into the 70s.
We’ll be partly cloudy again, but there will be a few more showers and storms forming in the region.
These will probably increase as we head towards the evening.
There may even be some heavy rain and a few strong storms during that time. Winds during the day will be out of the southwest at 10-15ph, but some stronger gusts could happen during those storms.
By the time we hit Wednesday we’ll be back in the soupy/Summery weather. High temps will be in the low 90s. The heat index will probably be near or over 100.
There will be a few pop-up storms possible. Then we’ll heat up some more Thursday and Friday. High temps will be in the low-mid 90s. The heat index will be over 100, and we’ll probably have some heat alerts again. The rain chances may drop on Friday, but that would let the temps get into the mid 90s. We’ll see.
In the tropics there is a weak disturbance in the middle of the Atlantic. It is moving to the west/northwest.
It probably won’t form in the short term, but it has a medium chance of formation as it moves towards Puerto Rico and/or the southern Bahamas in a few days. Stay tuned for updates.
Meteorologist: Jeremy Wheeler