SHORT TERM FORECAST
THURSDAY: Cloudy and much cooler with occasional showers from the morning through early afternoon, drying out late in the day. High: 64
THURSDAY NIGHT: Partial clearing; cool and drier overnight. Low: 48
FRIDAY: Clouds & sun. Evening rain. Cool. High: 67
FORECAST SUMMARY
After 3 straight days of 90+ degree summery heat (a heat wave), and 5 straight days of abundant sunshine, our weather has taken a pretty sharp turn for cool and unsettled. It won’t rain all day every day, but it will be hard to get an entirely dry day for a while. Rounds of morning showers will be around through early afternoon with showers slowly clearing the area from North to South throughout the day. We should mostly dry out late Thursday, Thursday night, and most of the daytime hours on Friday, but another round of rain will arrive Friday night and last most of Saturday and Saturday night. Sunday and Memorial Day Monday do feature some rain chances, but not as much as Saturday. We will also creep back into the 60’s and 70’s to close out the extended holiday weekend.
DETAILED FORECAST
THURSDAY
After sweating to 90°+ heat all week so far, get ready for a much cooler stretch of weather that starts Thursday. Expect a cloudy and dramatically cooler day with highs only in the low to mid 60s. There will be some occasional rain showers around through the morning to early afternoon, before some drier weather tries to work in from the north and push those showers south late in the day, allowing for some late afternoon and evening drying. Then skies may partially clear overnight as a brief drier lull becomes established, as cooler lows sink into the upper 40s.
FRIDAY
We’ll try to sneak in a mostly dry day on Friday, before more wet weather returns to start the holiday weekend. There could even be some sunshine Friday morning, especially the farther north you travel, before clouds thicken back up later in the day. It does look mostly dry, with any rain holding off until after sunset for most areas. But it will be another cool day, with highs mostly in the mid 60s. Expect some occasional rain showers to overspread the area from south to north as we move through Friday night.
SATURDAY
This will be the coolest and wettest day of the holiday weekend, as a fairly damp and dreary Saturday looks to kick the weekend off. Expect cloudy skies, a cool easterly ocean breeze, temperatures stuck in the mid to upper 50s most of the day, and at least some occasional rain or rain showers for most of the day, with perhaps a few drizzly lulls in there too. Around an inch of rain is expected from Friday night through Saturday and Saturday night, which will help the drought, but wash out or complicate many outdoor holiday weekend plans. There’s some hope for improvements for Sunday and Monday, but not the dramatic warmer and sunnier ones we’d like to see.
SUNDAY AND MEMORIAL DAY MONDAY
Well after Saturday, we have nowhere to go but up. And we will, albeit slowly. Sunday should start cloudy with some lingering showers from Saturday and Saturday night, but those should taper off early. With any luck, a drying trend can take hold the rest of the day. Highs will still be quite cool for late May, just not nearly as cool as Saturday. Look for Sunday highs to rebound into at least the mid 60s. Skies likely remain mostly cloudy, but we’ll see if we can’t get a little sunshine into later forecasts for later Sunday. Stay tuned! Come Memorial Day on Monday, highs should bounce back into the low to mid 70s, making it easily the mildest day of our cool holiday weekend. There can be some scattered showers around along with mostly cloudy skies, but hopefully the day ends up more dry than wet overall. Time will tell.
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