Gloomy days are ahead this weekend for the Northeast. Chief Meteorologist Jon Porter introduces the AccuLumen Brightness Index™ on the app to help you determine the darkness or brightness of the sky.
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00:00We've got a string of dreary wet days on the way across the northeastern part of the United States over the next several days, unfortunately into the weekend, and we'll track that with a new AccuWeather exclusive feature that's in the AccuWeather free app.
00:15That's the AccuLumen Brightness Index, and that's a much more descriptive way and better way of characterizing the brightness of a day that's measured on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is a gray, dark, dismal day, and 10 is a very bright day with blue skies, no clouds, no pollution, and a high level of glare out there.
00:36So we can check that out by going into the AccuWeather app. We'll go over to Philadelphia here today, but tap on the daily screen when you get to the main page of the AccuWeather app, and in the daily screen, you can tap on each day to receive all the exclusive AccuWeather details over here on the right, all the parameters about the day.
00:55But notice right here, the AccuLumen Brightness Index, and that's a 1, dark on Thursday in the Philadelphia area. Look at how that changes here as we head into Friday, a 1, dark, Saturday, 1, dark, right?
01:10So you can see that we're going to be dealing, as I mentioned, with a string of very dismal and dark days here in Philadelphia.
01:16We'll take until Monday or Tuesday, where there's some improvement by Monday, a 5 on AccuWeather scale.
01:21Let's conversely take a look at another location. We'll swing down to Augusta, Georgia, where there's going to be a lot of eyes on the weather for some important golf this weekend.
01:30As we head toward the weekend, look at the forecast for the AccuLumen Brightness Index, 9, very bright.
01:37So again, that best description can help you to make better decisions and stay safer. That's what we do here at AccuWeather.
01:43AccuWeather has been proven to be the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings.
01:47Better protect your family and keep them safer. Download the AccuWeather app today.
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