Another beautiful, sunny and dry Saturday is in the books. Once again, we are trending cool overnight, with clear skies, light winds and lows in the 40s in the city, and 30s in the ‘burbs.
Sunday brings us yet another sunny to mostly sunny day, with highs climbing above where they were Saturday. In fact, expect that most areas in the Delaware Valley get into the low to middle 70s, save for the higher elevations up in the Poconos. Monday will bring us much of the same, with highs approaching 80 degrees.
Tuesday we will be chasing the record high temperature of 83 set 104 years ago in 1920.
By Wednesday though, a cold front will swing through, and significantly knock our temperatures down some 20 degrees, back into the 60s where they belong this time of year.
The big story? The rain — or lack of it.
We desperately need rain, unfortunately, Wednesday’s cold front brings nothing more than clouds as it passes overhead leaving us in a race for the longest dry streak in Philadelphia history. The current streak is 29 days set 150 years ago in the fall of 1874. The odds are good that we will break that record.