Uptick in humidity, storms to accompany midweek warmup in the Northeast
Following a cool start to the week, warmer weather is in store for much of the northeastern United States around midweek.
After parts of the interior Northeast dealt with a frosty start to Tuesday, temperatures rebounded to within a few degrees of average levels during Tuesday afternoon.
Typical highs for early-June range from the middle 60s in northern Maine to the lower 80s in southern Virginia.
Even warmer conditions are in store for many areas on Wednesday.
The return of warmth will come at a price, however.
Following a small batch of showers over northern New York state from Tuesday, more general clouds, showers and thunderstorms are forecast to overspread the region along with an uptick in humidity on Wednesday.
Some of the storms can become severe from parts of the Ohio Valley to the Chesapeake Bay region during Wednesday afternoon and evening.
Showers will then retreat southward on Thursday.
A batch of dry air with at least partial sunshine is expected to bulge southeastward from Ontario spanning Thursday and Friday.
Sunshine by day should more than cancel out the cool origins of that air.
The effect should result in high temperatures that plateau within a few degrees of seasonable levels at midweek and hold there into Friday.
The pattern on Thursday may develop enough so that portions of New England, the upper mid-Atlantic and the central Appalachians get a much-needed extended period of dry weather that lasts through the weekend.
However, farther to the southwest, showers and thunderstorms may pester areas from Ohio to Virginia and over the Southeast states during much of the weekend.
The track of moisture from a budding tropical system in the western Gulf of Mexico has a chance at wandering into part of the Northeast early next week.
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