Days of mild weather will transition to drenching showers and thunderstorms in the coming days.
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00:00The big concern moving forward will involve a big transition from great, beautiful weather.
00:05It's been a nice week for most of us, to a stormier weekend.
00:09And obviously also the beach impacts that John talked about.
00:12And maybe some of the storms late this Saturday and Sunday may keep some beach numbers down slightly.
00:19And that might actually put fewer people at risk for the rip currents.
00:23But again, we don't want to wish away business at the beach towns here
00:26because these are million-dollar weekends for some big businesses there.
00:31And again, we do have some storms around, but just be careful.
00:34My message here is just to be careful.
00:36Kids and adults alike, rip currents can be deceptively dangerous and deadly,
00:40even at moments when there's a blue sky over your head.
00:44So Thursday, we have some more showers around parts of the New England states.
00:47Most of us are going to have a great day, though.
00:49Just maybe a plus 1 to 3 or 4 degrees from where we've been over the past few days here into the northeast,
00:57turning a little smidge warmer than we have been Friday.
01:01We're going to be a little warmer into the New England states.
01:03But here comes the big concern.
01:05Showers and thunderstorms are going to be moving on in.
01:08So again, there's a warm front.
01:09It's going to introduce higher dew point air, increasingly humid here,
01:13into the area around the Great Lakes and areas like western Pennsylvania.
01:17Saturday, this zone here of warmth and humidity increases off to more of New England, upstate New York.
01:24And it's going to be a day with rounds of showers and thunderstorms.
01:27Not the whole time, but again, we're going to have showers and thunderstorms at times here through the interior
01:32and closing in late in the day on the Hudson Valley, the areas around the Delaware Valley.
01:37Later in the day, some scattered thunderstorms will be escalating.
01:40So we're going to have drenching showers and storms this weekend,
01:44especially at any point in the weekend for the interior,
01:47and especially late Saturday and through Sunday into the area closer to the coast.
01:51It won't rain the whole time.
01:53This is convective, so these are thunderstorm-driven rounds of rain,
01:57but it will at least curtail some outdoor plans for some.
02:01So this week, looking at Thursday, Friday, and Saturday into the weekend,
02:05you can see there's not a whole lot of exceptional heat out there.
02:08In fact, we are hard-pressed to find many 90s.
02:10We may hit 90 tomorrow in D.C., 91 in Lexington.
02:13Then we get knocked down.
02:14We shave about 5 degrees off of both of those high temperatures come Saturday
02:19in both Lexington and Washington, D.C.
02:21Virginia Beach pretty steady, but only in the low 80s there.
02:24Detroit, you drop into the mid-70s Saturday.
02:26Pittsburgh falling from 86 to 81.
02:28New York falling from 87 all the way down to 78 Saturday.
02:32Boston, you're stuck in the upper 70s.
02:34Burlington drops 85 down to 77.
02:36And we're going to have a new, renewed cool-down here behind our weekend storm system
02:41that brings those showers and storms through, and that flow is going to be a little cooler.
02:44So we have highs in the 70s, low 80s for some.
02:47And overall, big picture over the next several days and through August 24th,
02:52it's a relatively cool for August air mass here
02:56and weather pattern for the Great Lakes, the Midwest, and the Northeast.
02:59We're avoiding the big heat.
03:00We had a hot start to summer, but again, as we move through the back nine,
03:05it is a little cooler out there.