Welcome to the first week of fall! As if right on cue, Mother Nature will make it look and feel like it with highs the next few days in low 70s after morning temps in the 50s to near 60 degrees.
The big question is about rain. When will we get any of it? It has been an incredibly dry month with only .41 inch of rain falling in Philadelphia so far in September, the driest since 2005. However, if we go back to Aug. 19, when our current dry trend started, we find ourselves in the driest stretch of weather ever recorded for that same time period. The previous record was .44 inch in 1969 (from Aug. 19 to Sept. 22).
The mostly cloudy pattern will persist for the week ahead with sprinkles Monday but a bit of a better chance on Tuesday. By Wednesday some much-needed rain arrives, and shower chances continue through early Friday. However, don’t expect too much. The models have total rainfall in our area between .25-1.25 inches, with the potential for a little more, but it shouldn’t be a flooding event.