WEATHER BLOG: Rain Coming

Showers are struggling to reach the surface this morning due to plenty of dry air in the lowest levels of the atmosphere. The droplets falling into this layer of dry air near the surface results water evaporating from the drops as they fall ... some never reach the ground other may be felt as a sprinkle. As a result, a shower in a few spots this morning (but not everyone will get a shower) then clouds will break for some sunshine this afternoon. Patchy clouds this evening will be followed by increasing cloudiness late tonight as a storm system approaches the mid-Atlantic from the southwest. This storm will bring us some rain tomorrow but we will be on the northern fringes of the steadiest and heaviest rainfall during the day. Some of that heavier rainfall will work its way northward tomorrow night and there may be a period or
two of heavier downpours before midnight, but again the prolonged heavy rain associated with the storm will stay to our south. As this storm moves away from us late tomorrow night the rain will taper off overnight and the clouds will break late.

Any lingering clouds Tuesday morning will give way to a good deal of sunshine by the afternoon as high pressure takes control of our weather for the middle of the week. Along with sunshine we can expect warmer afternoon temperatures as the sun helps to boost temperatures to around 70 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. It will remain
warm on Friday, but a storm system, this one approaching from the northwest, will bring an increase in cloudiness Friday afternoon and a chance for a shower late in the day or at night. There may be a left over shower Saturday morning, but then high pressure fresh out of Canada will build in bringing with it sunshine but also cooler temperatures.