Cool Down This Week; Warmup Next Weekend

Get ready for a cool down coming this new week, beginning Sunday. High temperatures will be up to ten degrees below average, which will translate to highs near 60 degrees. Also, Sunday night will be the coolest time of the cool down, where you may be waking up to temperatures in the 30's Monday morning. Here's a look at the pattern for this coming week, which shows lower heights (cooler temperatures):

Following this week though, I am happy and excited to say that it will be getting warmer. The warmer temperatures I think will begin next weekend, where both the Central and Eastern US will be transitioning from the cold to the warmth:The forecast heights for next weekend from the European or ECMWF model are looking greater, which is shown by the yellow, orange, and red colors. In meteorological terms, heights represent the height of the pressure surface on which the observation was taken. When heights are greater, it is warmer, and when they are lower, temperatures are cooler:

The geopotential height for next week over the Eastern United States will also be high, keeping the warm and dry conditions over this region:

According to the Climate Prediction Center, they also agree with this nice, May warmup ahead. They're forecasting for there to be above average temperatures the next eight to fourteen days:

They are also predicting for it to get drier for the New England region, whereas the rest of the country will be experiencing wetter, stormier conditions beginning next weekend and into the following week:

These drier conditions that are expected is bad news though because even though most of us love the sunshine and the dry weather, 56 percent of Connecticut is abnormally dry, including all of our area:

This drought monitor even includes all the rain we received in the beginning of May

-- and that was not enough! More rain is definitely needed soon.

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