Well today certainly turned out to be what the ABC6 Weather Center was calling for. Showers began in the early hours of this morning and continued to the early afternoon. Around 1pm this afternoon there were still a lot of lingering clouds, but the sun proved to break through by 2:30 and the temperature peaked today at 87° in Providence. Tonight the overnight lows are expected to dip into the mid 60's, if the dewpoint temps decrease more drastically over the evening hours, we may even get a little cooler than that.
Tomorrow, we will be under that high pressure system that I had mentioned Yesterday. This high pressure will also bring about some drier air to give all of us some relief from the humidity. Things will certainly be a little comfier on Friday and Saturday, Sunday is looking ok as well, but we cannot exactly rule out a pop-up shower here and there for the RI and SE Mass area. Only time will tell about that.
The official temperature and wind forecast for the weekend...
Friday, a high of 81. Winds light and variable. Mainly out of the North for most of the day then a Sea Breeze will kick in shifting to a Southerly wind by about 5pm. Overnight temperatures expected to maybe even dip into the upper 50's because of the low dew points and humidity.
Saturday a high of 80, it will also be another gorgeous day. Some clouds rolling in but they will be associated with fair weather. The winds will be mainly be out of the South once again at about 5mph. Overnight low calling for about 63°.
On Sunday, still a decent day, some patchy fog in the morning hours with a few more clouds than Saturday sticking around. A high of about 80. We cannot completely say that it will stay dry all day. There is a slight possibility of some pop-up showers in parts of Southern RI.
The start of next week also is not looking quite pleasing. Patchy fog and mostly cloudy throughout most of the day, the high will be 78°.
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More interesting info to come in the Tropics.
A Tweet from the Northeast Quadrant today indicated that a project called PREDICT which stands for the Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud Systems in the Tropics will run from August 15th to about September 30th to study Hurricane Genesis. To find out more info on what the project entails, there is a great video on Northeast Quadrant's Blog. Be sure to check it out! And as always, I will keep you posted with these new findings in the Tropics as they come.
Right now it's pretty quiet out there. However, the National Hurricane Center is currently looking at two systems for tropical development. At the moment they both are only at a 10-20% chance of forming into anything significant.
That's the latest from the Weather Center at ABC6!
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