Weekend Rain And Thunderstorm Forecast Suggested Timeline
Friday August 16 2024
The weekend will bring our transition from late summer heat to a cool down next week. In between, we will have a few days with showers and thunderstorms that may have your weekend plans in question. There is a strong hurricane well off the East Coast, and that is NOT the reason for our rain. That will only bring high waves to the coast.
In this report, I want to show you the most reliable computer model forecast for this weekend. The maps are radar simulations and only suggestions. They are NOT PROMISES. I hope that the general placement of timing and location may help you plan ahead or anticipate what to expect.
Low Pressure in the Great Lakes is the driving force. Cooler air being pulled in from the North is colliding with the building heat and humidity. The complex frontal boundary (triple point) in Ohio is responsible for storms today that have reached the mountains of western Maryland. This will be the source or our storms this weekend into Monday.
Hurricane Ernesto has 100 mph winds and continues to charge in on Bermuda. This will bring increasing rip currents to the East Coast beaches, but it is not the source of our rain or wind.
Potential for showers and some thunderstorms around sunrise.
A cluster of showers will shift and focus around the northern part of the Chesapeake Bay and Delmarva through noon.
Thundershowers will be developing during the late afternoon and evening.
A strong cluster of storms may cross metro areas of central Maryland after sunset.
Thundershowers will develop during the afternoon. Perhaps more than shown here. The cluster of storms with the cold front may cross Central Maryland between 4 PM and 10 PM.
Three days of rain. Saturday looks like morning showers and storms, then a second impulse in the evening and at night.
Sunday looks more widespread for most of the region.
Monday will shift the storm threat farther south and east, while the chance for dry weather will arrive from the North and West.
Region Wide chance for thunderstorms between 2 PM and 8 PM is about 60%.
Region Wide chance for thunderstorms between 2 PM and 8 PM is about 90%.
This is the day of the weekend, most likely to be impacted in the afternoon and evening.
Southern SHIFT of the chance for thunderstorms between 2 PM and 8 PM is about 60%.
Less farther inland west and north as the new air mass will be moving in with cooler air.
This has a direct path through Bermuda. This small island has only had 18 direct hits since 1850. That is once every 9 to 10 years.
Local beaches may get 4 to 6 Ft swells from the distant storm.
The transition from summer heat to cooler pre-fall temps next week will bring a few days with thunderstorms. These will be most widespread on Sunday and are NOT from Ernesto.
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