Great Weather 'Almost' Here
By Steve MacLaughlin on June 13, 2012, 5:08pm
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It's been a long time since we've been able to predict an entire week that will be rain-free, but if the forecast holds up, we will indeed see an incredible stretch beginning Thursday and lasting through the weekend and into much of next week.
But first, we need to scour out one final batch of stubborn moisture tonight and Thursday morning.
The image above is the surface map at about 5pm on Wednesday. There are two features that brought the rain over the last 24 hours...a cold front pushing from west to east through the state and an area of low pressure to our south, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula.
Had these two systems linked up fully, we would have seen a lot more rain along with severe weather and flooding. Since these systems never connected, we got some good rain, but not the big-time rain.
With these two systems slow to clear tonight, we will keep clouds, fog and light rain in the forecast overnight tonight. The cold front will push east early Thursday morning. We might wake up to some fog, but the sunshine will work in quickly on Thursday and stick around through Father's Day Weekend and beyond.
So...how is our drought doing? As we do each week, we will update the drought status on Thursday, but it will not include this latest batch of rain since drought conditions are taken on Tuesday and posted on Thursday. That means we gotta wait till next Thursday to see how today's rain helped the on-going Connecticut drought.
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