A Perfect 10

For the middle of July, Thursday will be a perfect 10.  Dew points will be in the low 50s with high temps in the low 80s under bright sunshine!  It just doesn't get much nicer than what the weather conditions will be for Thursday....just splendid!  The infrared cloud image below shows the vastness of dry air in our region.

Friday looks to be nearly equally as nice although there will be a few more clouds that dot the sky.  The synoptic map below forecast for Friday morning shows that we owe our nice weather to this rather extensive area of high pressure centered over the northeast US and SE O Canada. 

We will have a return of the heat and humidity very gradually, but even this weekend looks to be rather nice.  The humidity will slowly increase by Sunday night and by early next week, the heat and humidity will return.  The 500 mb prog for next Monday shows the big upper high building once again, this time a bit further north & east than this week.  That means some warmer conditions will once again build into PA and really limit any chances of meaningful rainfall in the next 7-10 days!  But note once again that PA is under NW flow at high levels which will suppress the greatest influx of humidity to PA and new England.  But that is a classic heat signature for the central and eastern US.  Ugh!

Here are the anomalies for next Thursday.  Note the large deviations above normal in our the Great Lakes region.  It looks like next week will be the hottest week of the year.  We will have a heat wave with at least 4 days exceeding 90ºF.  It looks like a stretch of hot and humid weather will invade PA beginning next Monday or Tuesday.  That will not be a perfect 10!

Aaahh yes...."10".  Do y'all remember that overhyped 1979 movie with Bo Derek and Dudley Moore?  There was nothing 10 about it except for Bo!  That what the movie was...it should've just been called Bo Derek....I guess it kinda was!

Enjoy these Perfect "10"s!

Smitty

AA:  Nice weather through the weekend.  Hot and humid next week.  Looks like hottest wx for PA next week.