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Northeast drying out and experiencing fall-like weather after flooding rain
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8/21/2024
Unseasonably chilly weather is moving in to the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic after extreme flooding earlier this week.
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Our top story takes us into southwest Connecticut.
00:02
We continue to track just how devastating Sunday's historic flooding was.
00:06
Six to ten inches of rain fell in the area in just a few hours leading to the deadly flooding.
00:11
As we move forward, we do have a stretch of dry weather through this area.
00:16
And we need a break in the action here after
00:18
that pretty horrifying event that led to severe flooding.
00:22
A lot of the time people don't associate scenes like this with southwest Connecticut,
00:26
but certainly nobody's immune and we got into it in a big way.
00:29
Parts of Long Island also faced some nasty storms.
00:32
Right now we have some showers that are drifting from north to south,
00:34
north-northwest to south-southeast across parts of the Finger Lakes
00:37
and also into parts of the Adirondacks around an upper-level low-pressure system
00:41
that is spinning over sections of eastern Canada.
00:45
But again, this is a feature on the map.
00:46
You can kind of trace the center of circulation somewhere northwest of Montreal
00:50
and we have high pressure off to the west.
00:52
So generally these are working in tandem with one another to drive some colder Canadian air
00:57
from up near the Hudson Bay all the way down into the northeastern and midwestern U.S. here.
01:02
So we're looking good.
01:03
If you like cooler air, and I think most of us like to be comfortable this time of the year.
01:07
So overall, as we take a look at the current temperatures,
01:09
we're only in the 60s, low 60s at that in New England,
01:14
at least in Burlington, mid-60s into Portland and into Boston, Massachusetts.
01:18
And nobody's all that warm.
01:20
We're only at 73 degrees down into Virginia Beach right now.
01:23
So the chillier air at night and pleasantly cool weather in the afternoons
01:27
will continue to win out in these areas here over the next few days through Thursday.
01:31
Tonight to tomorrow morning, specifically unseasonably cool air.
01:35
Some will challenge record lows and specifically West Virginia
01:40
has the greatest likelihood of seeing true record-breaking low temperatures tonight.
01:44
These are the record lowest temps for any August 21st in the historical database.
01:49
Some of these areas go back over a century
01:51
and we're looking at a record breaker by three degrees.
01:53
Coldest August 21st tomorrow in the books in Charleston, West Virginia.
01:57
Parkersburg, we expect to break the record by a full five degrees.
02:00
Five degrees colder than the previous chilliest August 21st from 1940.
02:05
Pretty impressive stuff.
02:06
And widespread showers are going to stay to the north.
02:09
We may see a little swarm of this into the Adirondacks.
02:12
Otherwise, it pivots up into Maine.
02:14
Not many of these will survive as far south as Interstate 80.
02:17
Better shot into Boston Tuesday night.
02:19
Wednesday, the cooler air.
02:21
And then Wednesday afternoon, the showers will blossom once again.
02:24
And Thursday morning, there will be one more round of near-record chilly weather.
02:29
Parkersburg again on track for, in this case, a tie for the record low for August 22nd.
02:35
And in Charleston, West Virginia, and in Jackson, Kentucky,
02:37
will be within a degree of the record lows there.
02:41
But overall, cool air wins out.
02:42
And then we'll just slowly stair-step it up.
02:44
A subtle warming trend over the next few afternoons, with dry weather winning out.
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