Your Weekend Forecast

Another cold front will be sweeping southeastward out of the Upper Midwest on Saturday. It will make it to the Atlantic Coast on Sunday but at the same time it arrives will begin to wash out. As it traverses southeastward it will bring an area of rain and t-storms with it. On Saturday, the best chances for rainfall will be confined to the Upper Midwest, Ohio and Mid-Mississippi Valleys. Some of the afternoon thunderstorms in the Ohio Valley could become severe. Temperatures behind this front will still be some-what cool across the Upper Midwest with 60s and 70s. Along and ahead of the front temperatures will rise into the 80s and 90s. The humidity will also increase providing a more uncomfortable feel from the Gulf Coast northward into the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic. This will actually be one of the few true summer weekends to-date from the Mid-Atlantic northward into New England.

On Sunday, the highest rainfall chances will stretch near the washing out frontal boundary from New York southward along the Atlantic Coast and back through the Southeastern and Southern U.S. Cooler and drier air will filter into the Ohio and Mid-Mississippi Valleys. It will also be mostly cloudy for these areas, especially up across the Great Lakes. This will help to keep temperatures mainly in the 70s from Iowa to New York while the 80s and few 90s will hold on from the Mid-Atlantic into the Deep South.

The washed out front will set up for a wet week, next week, in the Southeast as daily thunderstorms will be likely due to the lingering boundary. More on this late this weekend.