PERIODS OF UNSETTLED WEATHER TO CONTINUE INTO NEXT WEEK, WITH A BREAK SUNDAY/MONDAY...

The maddening weather waffling continues, with many forecasters scrambling to adjust to a weather pattern that is stagnant, making it difficult to pinpoint periods of cloudiness, sunshine and rain. For the next few days, with the exception of Sunday and Monday, this general theme should continue, with the risk of showers and some thunderstorms (Friday) persisting into Saturday, before we get a sunny, settled day to end the weekend.

A front draped across the Middle-Atlantic states is responsible for all the chaos, as it stubbornly and painfully moves from the south to our north. The other culprit is a blocking high pressure situated across northeast Canada, which is pushing clouds over us and a raw wind right off of the cool New England waters. Oddly enough, as we witnessed yesterday, this pattern can allow for some breaks from time to time in the mid to late day period, which can cause wide temp variations over a relatively small geographical area.

Here is the front on Thursday, located near the Del Marva Peninsula:

Now here is the front on Friday evening:

this process will literally take until Saturday evening, before a second front ( depicted above over central PA) comes in and clears us out for Sunday.

Until then, with the exception of Friday, the warmth that was promised early week continues to get chopped apart.

Once we get past Monday,  another storm system will advance in and make things unsettled again by Tuesday into Wednesday. There's a threat that this pattern leads into next weekend.

May is typically a wet month around here. The region has received a general 2-4 inch rainfall over the span of a few weeks time, and there is a good chance that once to the 15th, we find that many parts of the tri state region pick up even more (not counting what falls before Sunday).