8/17 Weather Outlook

Working to get back to issuing these daily as the new blogging interface allows an email to update my site. I hope these outlooks will become a more regular occurrence! The weather starts off great today. Temps will be in the mid 80s with some humidity beginning to be felt as winds will begin their shift to the south. Can't rule out isolated, bay/ocean induced convection or even highland induced convection, but isolated will be the case! Tomorrow there is a chance that parts of the region will see severe weather ( http://www.midatlanticweather.com/severe )so please take note of this and an alert may be issued concerning this. Highs will be in the mid to upper 80's and the humidity will be back! Thursday and Friday will be similar to tomorrow,with afternoon and evening thunderstorms possible. The weekend could be really stormy as we have three factors to deal with. 1. A strong front from Canada which on the other side is extremely, and unseasonably cool (There could be frost in parts of the Northeastern US this weekend!) 2. That front will stall in our region (actually there are 2 fronts. One to the north holding up the really chilly air, and the secondary which will get stuck on us) 3. The remnants of Earl which may have a chance to get entrained into the stalled front. Much uncertainty remains as to how much precip we get this weekend, but the factors above will need to be monitored as severe weather and flooding rains may need to be forecasted. All for now! ===== Jimmy Chaplin of Mid Atlantic Weather. http://www.midatlanticweather.com * Get the Washington DC Weatherbook! Beautiful photos, great weather history! http://www.weatherbook.com *Live near Purcellville in Loudoun, VA? Need catering?Want great deli food and ICE CREAM?Call on my good friend Ian at Sweet T's! New Store just opened! http://www.sweetts.com