Pleasant weather continues through midweek
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- First Alert: Pleasant weather continues through the middle of the week. By Thursday, humidity and storm chances return.
It will be a pleasant evening with dry conditions. Overnight, partly cloudy skies and lows in the 60s are expected.
A stalled front sweeps south and east Tuesday, keeping the area dry and comfortable. Low humidity continues with lots of sun and highs in the mid to upper 80s.
Dry weather will continue through midweek, but humidity will start to creep back up by Wednesday.
A cutoff low over eastern Canada finally moves east around midweek, which will break up our pattern. Multiple disturbances will move through the flow. This will bring rain chances each day starting Thursday. Locally, heavy rain will be possible.
Thunderstorm chances continue through the end of the week, and while there will be less robust energy passing aloft to bring heavier activity, the threat for flash flooding will remain for areas that receive multiple rounds of rainfall. Overall rainfall totals look to be a general 1-2 inches through Sunday.
Temperatures will remain near or below the historical average through much of the forecast period, as thunderstorms and cloud cover help keep temperatures from climbing much above average. Expect highs in the mid-80s to around 90.
Tropics:
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf:
1. Central Subtropical Atlantic (AL95):
A broad area of low pressure centered a few hundred miles
east-southeast of Bermuda continues to show signs of organization.
Additional development of the low is possible, and this system
could become a short-lived tropical depression or storm during the
next couple of days while it moves northward and
north-northeastward, well northeast of Bermuda.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...50 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...50 percent.
2. Eastern Tropical Atlantic:
A tropical wave and associated area of low pressure has moved
offshore of west Africa with disorganized showers and thunderstorms.
Environmental conditions are forecast to be marginally conducive
for development, and a tropical depression could form by the middle
to latter portions of the week while the system moves generally
westward at 15 to 20 mph across the eastern and central tropical
Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...60 percent.
Have a great night!
Cruz Medina
