BLOG: Gorgeous Day

High pressure will be the rule the next couple of days with sunshine and rising temperatures. There may be some patchy fog in outlying area this morning and again tomorrow, especially in the River Valleys, but in general, could ask for and receive nicer weekend weather.The high pressure in place over the mid-Atlantic states will hold for beautiful weather again Monday. During Monday and Monday night there will be a slight weakening of the high pressure to the south and a little building of high pressure to the north. This more northerly to northeasterly flow from the northern high will help trim temperatures a few degrees for Tuesday, and we are currently above guidance and could be a couple of degrees too high. But still though, well above average and nice even as sunshine mixes with clouds in the afternoon well in advance of the storm that will be developing down near Florida this weekend. This storm will be working slowly northward this upcoming week. This storm is slated to send more in the way of clouds across the area Tuesday night and Wednesday and models of late, particularly the GFS, has been erratic in its timing.

Right now, we think the heaviest of the rain comes Thursday, but there will be at least a little rain and cooling Wednesday. Then the bulk of the rain with this storm system appears to be timed as moving in Wednesday night or Thursday with Thursday being model consensus day for rain, which some models still show as being heavy and continuing into Thursday night. Our high temperatures forecast for Thursday reflect an overcast rainy day. This system should move away early Friday.