Weather to slowly improve before a coastal storm develops

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Conditions will dry out and temperatures will rebound through the middle of the week, but that trend won't last for long, with another cool and wet weekend ahead.

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00:00 Well, after a chilly and wet weekend, a chilly and wet start to the week, there is improvement

00:05 coming to the Northeast.

00:07 We have to wait one more day.

00:09 When will it get here?

00:10 Tuesday, where I think the sun's going to be appearing.

00:13 Temperatures are going to get back to where they should be, and we're going to have bright

00:16 sunshine and there will be no rain.

00:19 However, here we go, another weekend coming, and we're going to have weekend woes across

00:24 the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, whether it's Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Washington,

00:28 D.C., Baltimore.

00:29 Now, not all of these cities are going to get a soaking rain, but I think everybody

00:32 turns cloudy, and at least part of the weekend, we are going to be looking at some rain.

00:37 Here's the pattern that's going to set up this weekend.

00:39 Look at this big dip in the jet stream coming southbound, and then you know we're going

00:42 to see this storm forming off the North Carolina coast.

00:45 Now, does this storm hug the coast, go out to sea, or go in between?

00:49 I think it's going to be the later, or the latter of what I said.

00:53 It's going to take a track in between, where there's going to be impacts, especially across

00:57 New England.

00:58 Let me show you where I'm coming from here.

01:00 Let's take you out into the Pacific here, and you can see a couple of storms.

01:04 This is our storm coming into the Northwest.

01:06 This was a powerful typhoon that we were talking about last week, but right now, it's lost

01:11 all of its tropical characteristics, but there's the energy associated with it.

01:15 Both of these storms is causing a big dip in the jet stream.

01:19 There it is, south of Alaska, and when you have a big dip in the jet stream in Alaska,

01:25 what happens is you're forcing the jet northward into western parts of Canada, and once you

01:32 force that jet stream north, the downstream response of that is the jet stream moving

01:39 south, where?

01:40 Across the Midwest, by the middle part of the week.

01:42 Let me show you the pattern we're under.

01:43 Here's our storm coming into the Northwest today.

01:46 Watch what happens by the middle part of the week.

01:47 So here's your upper level low, or your trough into the Central United States.

01:51 You see what's going on up here, though?

01:53 You have all this additional energy, the yellow, orange, and red.

01:57 What's that going to do?

01:58 That's going to drop into this trough and cause it to dig or move farther south and

02:02 east.

02:03 Watch it move south.

02:04 There it goes, and by the end of the week, there's your trough along the Eastern United

02:08 States.

02:09 You see this energy here?

02:11 This is where your storm's going to form Friday night off the North Carolina coast.

02:14 Now, the question is, again, where's it going?

02:17 I think this is the most likely scenario.

02:20 You'll take that storm Friday night and Saturday off the Mid-Atlantic coast.

02:24 I think much of the Mid-Atlantic is going to be spared a lot of rain and wind with this

02:28 storm.

02:29 There will be some.

02:30 There will be showers, no doubt about it.

02:32 But I think the biggest impact is going to be New England.

02:34 Why?

02:35 Because that storm will then intensify, and then I think it's going to try to hook back

02:39 to the North and West, right across down East Main.

02:42 With that, the biggest impacts are coming into New England this weekend.

02:46 Saturday night into Sunday.

02:47 Now, New York City, I think you're going to get a soaking rain out of this.

02:49 I think the worst conditions are farther north.

02:52 In advance of this storm, I think you're going to start seeing an onshore flow, and you're

02:56 going to get some coastal flooding.

02:57 Then as the storm continues to strengthen, you're going to pick up the winds across all

03:02 of New England.

03:03 This will have a feel of a winter-like storm.

03:07 And with that, not only coastal flooding, but I think there could be some heavy rain

03:10 and inland flooding across New England as well this weekend.

03:15 Batten down the hatches.

03:17 We have another storm coming.

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