00:00Lots to talk about in the long range for next week. With that, let's get to it. The crystal ball meteorologist, Joe Lumberg, I just said we're running low on time. But Joe, I have to say it. Happy anniversary to you and I. 35 years ago, you were a student at Penn State getting working on your master's. I was getting my undergrads. We both came to AccuWeather on this day 35 years ago. So happy anniversary.
00:27Fourth, 1990. How about it? Who would have thought 35 years later you and I would be working together on TV? But it's been an honor and privilege to work with you for the last 35 years. Likewise. All right. What did we talk about last week? Well, chill. Take a listen. Joe, let's talk about that cool. I know you and the long range team meteorologist Paul Passlock are pretty impressed with this cool shot. Oh, my goodness. I mean, you know, you just look at how far below average it has been.
00:57And this week, the historical averages, I mean, typically should still be in the 50s for nighttime lows. We've seen 40s, even some 30s. This shot, I think, is even more impressive.
01:05So Wednesday night, you're going to see a lot of places in here with nighttime lows in the 40s. Daytime highs, some 10 to 20 below these historical averages.
01:13That's going to sweep eastward on Thursday and eventually will cross over the Appalachians as we get to next weekend.
01:18You got the intensity right and even the timing as it's pushing into the northeast today. All right, Joe, let's getty up and go.
01:27All right. This is for next week. It's going to stay largely dry across the Ohio Valley into the northeast for most of the week.
01:35It will start cool, but it will warm up with time, especially in the plains pretty quickly.
01:39There could be some tropical downpours across the Florida Peninsula, and you're going to get a break from the heat in the west,
01:44but it may come at a price for some shower and thunderstorm activity, which may be spotty and could cause some more fires.
01:49Here's the U.S. drought monitor. This will be updated in the next hour or so.
01:52Notice we get more and more of these areas now from the lower Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley and northeast
01:57that are seeing abnormally dry conditions to drought conditions extending.
02:02And if you look at the pattern for next week, it's not promising.
02:05Yeah, I know Melissa was talking about a front's coming into the east to bring so much need of rain for these areas.
02:10But after Saturday night, that's gone. This trough comes in and means a cool start to next week.
02:15As the ridge develops in the plains states, it's going to warm up and we're going to see a big area of high pressure develop over these areas.
02:21And what does that mean? That means dry weather, no rain. And that's also going to lead to some cool nights.
02:27You're going to see some warming trends from west to east with time.
02:31But underneath this high, it's a stable air mass. And at this time of the year, these things tend to hang around for days at a time.
02:38And as a result of that, I think you're going to have five, six days of dry weather from, say, St. Louis all the way up to maybe Buffalo and Pittsburgh.
02:45Joe, I'm working on a masterpiece for our next hit. In fact, I'll have it here probably in about a half hour.
02:51But really quickly, this tropical wave, I think there could be some anxious moments here.
02:57There could be. I mean, this has got some good things going for it if you look for development, if you will.
03:02And eventually, we do believe that this is going to become a hurricane at some point over the course of the weekend or early next week.
03:08It'll approach the islands by the middle of next week. And through next week, we don't expect any impacts on the U.S. coastline.
03:14But after that, big question mark.
03:16All bets are off.
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