19 Elul 5768 The week before Rosh HaShanah

19 Elul 5768 the week before Rosh HaShanah

During the next 3 days Friday Saturday and Sunday, there will be a moderating trend at the least in the temperature department. The strong trough of low pressure that gave us the cool pool of air that is dipping temperatures into the upper 40s in parts of the western suburbs is now exiting its hold upon the Northeast US.

The change will be somewhat subtle as the High pressure that has been keeping us dry remains entrenched over us through Saturday. As a cold front moves in on Sunday from Canada, there will be little fanfare associated with it as clouds seem to be the most likely “threat” it poses to us—the air mass being another shot of the dry air that we’ve been used lately. The next high pressure that settles in will keep us dry with the temperatures next week back down to what we’ve seen for the better part of this past week with lows in the upper 40’s to low 50s and highs in the upper 60’s to low 70’s.

By the end of the week, a developing nor’easter that is this point looks like it’ll stay off the coast from MD on northward will stir up the waves at the shore and may give any boaters who are well offshore a tough time of it out over the open waters--which won’t be much of a problem for those of us here on dry land in the Philadelphia Tri-State area.