ISOLATED STORMS LATER TODAY; HIGHER RAIN CHANCES TOMORROW… A few thunderstorms will become possible this afternoon into this evening ahead of higher rain chances across our region on Friday. Storms that do fire up today will be more scattered in nature, meaning there is a good chance that most of us will remain dry. High temperatures will yet again be in the mid-80s today. Rain and storms are expected to be more numerous in coverage on Friday as an upper-level trough passes by to our north. We continue to monitor Hurricane Epsilon in the Atlantic. Epsilon will not be a direct concern for the local area. Let’s look at all of your Thursday forecast notes, below.
THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY AT TIMES ON FRIDAY… Widespread severe weather is NOT expected on Friday, but we could have some loud thunder at times as scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms fire up. Most of the rain and storms will fire up in the afternoon and early evening hours.
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS FORECAST… Not all of the local football games will be wet on Friday evening, but there inevitably will be some locales that have rain and storms around. We’ll call it a 30-40% chance that any given game will have rain around. Take the umbrella and rain gear and keep tabs on the radar at redzoneweather.com/radar or in the Radar tab of the RedZone Weather app.
FEW LINGERING STORMS ON SATURDAY; DRIER SUNDAY… Most spots will begin to dry out on Saturday. There could be a few lingering showers and thunderstorms before 5PM, but I expect all of the rain to be gone by the time we get to sunset on Saturday evening. Dry conditions are expected on Sunday with high temperatures in the 80s.
COLD FRONT APPROACHES BY MIDWEEK… Our next chance of cooler air is set to arrive behind a cold front by Wednesday and Thursday of the upcoming week. There is some model disagreement about specifics, but it looks like we will have highs in the 70s by the end of next week. Forecast confidence in this idea is rather low, and I suspect we may have some changes in tomorrow’s forecast video.
HURRICANE EPSILON IN ATLANTIC… Hurricane Epsilon continues to move north-northwest in the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean on this Thursday. A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Bermuda as some of the outer effects on the western side of the hurricane may affect Bermuda today, tonight, and into Friday. No direct U.S. impacts are expected because of Epsilon, other than high waves along the East Coast in the days ahead. Hurricane Epsilon is expected to turn northeast and move out to sea before becoming extratropical this weekend or early next week.
REST OF THE TROPICS ARE QUIET… Outside of Hurricane Epsilon, the north Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico are quiet with no new tropical storms expected to develop in the next 5 days. The previously outlined low-end chance of tropical storm formation in the Caribbean Sea is now completely off the board. Good news!
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See all the details in your Thursday #rzw forecast video. Have a great day!