After yesterdays ruckus, it was nice to see a silent radar across much of Southern New England this afternoon. Two storms did form near Springfield, but thanks to a warmer upper atmosphere, they were squashed before they really even got going.
That warm upper atmospheric “cap” as we call it is warding off the storms this afternoon. As it decays tonight, there might be some late-night storms that form after midnight, but they too seem few and far between.
Oddities of nature at work in the next two days. A front will slowly cross tomorrow, gradually dropping the humidity, but the thunder threat remains low because there isn’t an upper disturbance to trigger a storm. And by the time one does roll around, the front will be sweeping off Cape. In any event, we’re the winners here with less humid air and a nice setup for the weekend. In fact, there will be a sharp drop in the muggy air between Wednesday and Thursday to the point that we’re dubbing Thursday “comfortable” on our dewpoint scale.
Tropics remain quiet and there are some signs of a cooling trend in the long range forecast next week. We’ll see how that pans out.
Pete