last week’s prolonged stretch of heat and humidity in much of the Northeast, lower temperatures and humidity levels arrived over the past weekend and persisted into the beginning of this week. However, forecasters say that is likely to change by later this week.
While disturbances in the atmosphere caused showers and thunderstorms over parts of New England on Monday and Tuesday, many residents and visitors to the Northeast have enjoyed tolerable temperatures and humidity levels during what is typically the hottest time of the year. The pattern will soon begin to resemble something more typical for this time of the year, and this change will become quite noticeable with an increase in temperatures and humidity spanning Thursday and Friday.
“High pressure will build across the southeast United States later this week, ushering heat currently across the southern Great Plains east to parts of the East Coast,” said AccuWeather Meteorologist Matt Benz. “While the mercury will be climbing for many locations on Thursday and Friday, the humidity will be on the rise thanks to southerly flow transporting moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic.”
However, this change back to more typical summertime weather will be delayed in some areas. As the warmer and more humid air arrives, this will help lead to the development of showers and thunderstorms, and some of the storms could be gusty during the latter two days of the week.
While New England had to deal with showers and thunderstorms early this week due to disturbances moving through the area, the threat will expand to other areas during the latter part of the week and even into this coming weekend.
“The weather pattern is also expected to turn more active for a widespread area of the Northeast as the jet stream remains parked across southern Canada,” Benz said. “The combination of heat and humidity along with energy moving through should provide better chances for rain at times later this week through early next week, which is good news for many areas that have missed out on the rain so far this summer,” Benz explained.
