Let’s have a fabulous Tuesday and one last dry day! A mostly sunny sky will start the day before clouds increase late this afternoon ahead of tomorrow’s widespread rain showers. As high pressure keeps us dry today, it will slide off the East Coast. This will bring in a stronger easterly wind with gusts up to 25 mph. Overnight, clouds continue to increase and we will kick off Wednesday with a few showers moving onshore.

WEDNESDAY – THURSDAY

This will be the wettest stretch over the next 7 days. As a slow-moving low pressure system gradually moves up our coast, rainbands will move onshore with pockets of heavy rain and isolated thunderstorms in waves Wednesday into our Thursday. While it will not be a constant all day rain, there will be a rain chance all day due to the slow movement of this system. Wind will continue to pick up both days. Rainfall totals will be around 2-3″ overall. 

COASTAL CONCERNS

While everyone will see rain from Wednesday through Thursday, the coastal areas will be impacted the most as they will be closest to the area of low pressure. Starting today, there will be a moderate risk of rip currents. We could see this increase to a high risk over the next few days. The next few days will be breezy for all areas, but across the coast wind gusts up to 40 mph can’t be ruled out. This combined with constant rain bands / pockets of heavy rain could lead to downed small trees and power lines.

TROPICAL DEVELOPMENT

It wouldn’t be hurricane season without the possibility of SOME tropical development. There is a low chance of SOME development as this low pulls away from the area, moving to the northeast at 10-15 mph up the east coast. This does NOT change our impacts – regardless of formation. Again, it is a very low 10% chance. 

FRIDAY – NEXT WEEK

Low pressure begins to pull away from the area. Lingering moisture will give us scattered off and on showers through the day. Winds remain breezy. 

A typical summertime pattern returns over the weekend with highs in the lower 90s. Isolated to scattered storms are possible each day through next week.