AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno and Joe Lundberg look ahead to next week's weather. Most of the country is going to be warm, but unfortunately, the dry weather will persist from the Tennessee Valley into the Ohio Valley.
00:00Meteorologist Joe Lumberg. Before we, Joe, we talk about the upcoming week. Let's go back to last week and see what we were highlighting.
00:08All right. The high pressure builds in. Cool mornings, warmer afternoons, and that warming trend progresses from west to east, but bone dry in these areas for most of next week.
00:20Yeah, bone dry, Joe. We can't get a drop of rain in parts of the northeast here, but that's part of the story for next week.
00:28Yeah, we had some rain in the northeast Saturday night and Sunday as the front moved through, and there were some pretty good downpours with a wave of low pressure.
00:35But that's gone, and it's gone right back to dry, and the system that kind of skirted the east coast yesterday produced very little rain.
00:42As we go into next week, one of the three things that we're going to talk about is that there really continued to be no tropical threat for the United States.
00:49It's going to be warm across most of the country in contrast to the cool shots we've had recently.
00:53That's not going to be the case for most of the country next week.
00:56Unfortunately, the dry weather is going to persist from the Tennessee Valley into the Ohio Valley and probably parts of the Midwest.
01:03Notice how dry it has been in places like St. Louis over to Columbus and Pittsburgh over the past 30 days.
01:09It doesn't show up in here.
01:10You've had some rain, as I mentioned, this past weekend along the I-95 corridor.
01:15I was in the middle of it in southeastern Connecticut last Sunday, just an all-day soaking rain and kind of cool.
01:20There's been some wet weather here in the northern plains and also in portions of the eastern Rockies and high plains, some in Texas.
01:25But, you know, it's been very dry in most areas east of the Mississippi and across the Ohio Valley.
01:30This is not likely to change next week.
01:33You know, the pattern next week, Joe, again, you had already mentioned it.
01:37For much of the country, it also looks warm next week.
01:41It's warm.
01:41If you really look at the jet stream next week, Bernie, it's really a tale of two jet streams.
01:46The main jet stream is way to the north, so there's no access to cool air.
01:49So it's weird.
01:51Usually at this time of the year, you don't talk about cutoff lows or, you know, disturbances that kind of peel away from the jet stream.
01:57But that's what we're having.
01:58There's one that may kind of detach itself from the jet stream here in the eastern state.
02:02So I have to keep an eye on the east coast for the potential for some onshore flow and some wet weather.
02:06A system that comes into the northwest this weekend will work its way through the northern Rockies and then out into the northern plains.
02:12So you'll begin the weekend with one system lifting out with some showers and other storms.
02:16Another one comes in.
02:17But south and east of the area, these areas are going to be looking at summer-like warmth with temperatures in the 80s.
02:22They are 90 degrees on a consistent basis.
02:24And most of the south, Tennessee and Ohio Valley, warm and dry next week.
02:28Last week at this time, Joe, I was convinced that we would have Gabrielle in the Atlantic.
02:33In the Atlantic, there was just too much dry air.
02:36And it just goes to show you, you need all the ingredients.
02:38It doesn't matter how warm the water is.
02:41If you don't have all the ingredients, you're not going to get a storm.
02:43That said, if we're going to have one, you know, we're going to keep an eye on the Atlantic.
02:48There's still some waves coming off the coast of Africa and a couple of them are catching our eyes.
02:52So we'll have to see if those try to develop.
02:54But if they do, it looks as if upper-level wind shear would limit their growth potential and also probably keep them away from the U.S.
03:01This is the area, if anything can get into the Caribbean and the southern Gulf, that's the area we've got to watch.
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