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That's a Relief!

July 09, 2012; 6:56 AM

Monday 9 a.m.

A cold front moved through the Northeast during the weekend and has continued to drift south toward the Carolinas. This front has terminated the extreme heat for the time being. Through yesterday, Chicago's July has run more than 12 degrees above average and is only 3 degrees away from what is typical, in San Antonio, Texas.

While the Northeast and Great Lakes face more dry weather, there may be a tendency for moisture to creep northward through the Middle Atlantic states later this week. You can see some hints of that in this video.

Much of the uncertainty later this week is caused by the weakness of the predicted upper air flow. Weak flow means little should change. This means wherever it is raining when the weak flow regime starts could get a lot of rain, but other places won't have any rain at all.

This map shows the weakness of the flow predicted to be over the East (except for northern New England) later this week.

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Elliot Abrams
Elliot Abrams from AccuWeather.com offers this Northeast Weather Blog for the U.S. with regular updates on NE weather from a leading forecaster and meteorologist.