Weather Blog: Wednesday
The surface map this afternoon shows a low centered off the Delmarva Coast. Meanwhile, a high was centered over central Quebec. The pressure gradient between these two systems is resulting in gusty north-northeast winds buffeting the New England and mid-Atlantic coasts. The closed off upper-level low over the mid-Atlantic is slowly inching eastward and the storm is close to being vertically stacked. As a result the storm will only slowly drift northeastward during the next couple of days off the New England coast.
The pockets of rain rotating from northeast to southwest across the area this afternoon will diminish to a leftover shower or two this evening as the storm begins to inch away. The vertically stacked storm will drift northeast tonight off the New Jersey coast and will be centered off the eastern tip of Long Island by tomorrow morning. With more of a northwesterly, down-sloping flow in place and the storm pulling away most of tonight will end up dry after an evening shower.
The low will continue its jog northeast tomorrow and will be centered near the Cape of Massachusetts by evening. Drier air wrapping around the western periphery of the low and down-sloping flow will allow for more in the way of breaks in the clouds tomorrow. A gusty northwest wind will remain in place tomorrow into tomorrow night.
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