Tuesday May 5th, 2026 video forecast

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:23]EPA WNEP meteorologist Bobby Martrich here with your outlook for May 5th, 2026.

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[00:01:25]So, we have a very warm, summer-like day today, and it's a synoptically driven uh warmth that's coming in today cuz we have a southwesterly flow and a little breezy today, too. 10 to 15, gusting 20 to 25 uh ahead of this frontal boundary, but that's going to get temperatures up into summer-like levels, and we're going to have a lot of 80s here uh in our central and our southern areas. Maybe we can get up here in our uh some of our you know, the non-rural areas of northeast PA should get 80 or better, also.

[00:01:52]Uh but, I'll generally low to mid-80s across the entire rest of the region.

[00:01:55]You see above me, 78 to 86 is the temperature spread today. So, a summer-like day is what we're expecting, but we're not expecting any of the any precipitation at all, and largely not tonight, either. I think most of the area will be dry overnight, too, except for maybe some far northwestern areas, and you can see that here on the NAM high-res future simulator radar. This is at midnight tonight, going into early Wednesday morning. And you can see a few showers coming in uh a few hours after midnight. So, it's possibly a late-night shower in our uh up here by I-80 and points north as you get up close to the Pennsylvania-New York border.

[00:02:27]The rest of the area will be dry still until we get to Wednesday morning. Then we have the showers coming in and then steady periods of rain are expected during the day here on Wednesday. I do think this is going to go through most of the day here, most of the daylight hours, but once we get to late afternoon, this is 5:00 p.m., it's already starting to taper off and move up to just in just a isolated more isolated intermittent shower threat at that point. Uh here is 8:00. I wanted to show you this because down here is South Philadelphia. There's going to be a Phillies game here that's scheduled at the evening. Uh I do think as of now, it is going on as planned. And uh will rain during the day, but you're going to have this over by about mid-afternoon, so have time to dry out before the 6:40 start against the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday. All right, so keep your fingers crossed for that, but I do think you're going to have a chance for just intermittent showers here going through the evening uh and even overnight. Then we got to go go over to the longer-range NAM to see what we're doing beyond that. I'll get rid of this marker of Philadelphia. Uh but, late in the overnight, we have some more showers rotating through that'll go into early Thursday morning. I don't think this is going to be an all-day thing on Thursday. Our southeastern areas might hold on to some showers yet uh closer to the shore points, especially on uh Thursday morning. The rest of you, partly to mostly cloudy skies, more clouds for the southeast, closer to that frontal boundary. And that's because this boundary uh is going to be hung up a little bit.

[00:03:41]Here we go. Let's Let's get to Thursday.

[00:03:44]You see, there it is. It's over draped over southeastern areas. So, there could be a shower, especially south and east of I-95 here on Thursday morning. The rest of you are dry, but just a uh just a lot of clouds in the morning, then giving way to sun generally as this front finally moves away. So, not a big rainy day here on Thursday as it once looked, and that's kind of stepping away from that idea. And then we have a trough settling in here for late week, which means cooler temperatures. We're going to have temperatures that are uh not cold, of course, but this is all relative to average. But, we're going to have a little cool shot here coming for Friday.

[00:04:15]Uh then Saturday, we have a weak wave coming through the region, might touch off few showers here on Saturday afternoon, partly to mostly cloudy otherwise, and still cool. And then we have a one day we're going to have a temperature get above average here or excuse me, near average, anyway, close to the 70° mark, and that's cuz you have a southwesterly flow ahead of this next frontal boundary coming in. Uh this will come in Sunday evening and overnight.

[00:04:36]So, I think most of the most of Mother's Day right now is dry. It's partly to mostly cloudy, so increasing clouds throughout the day, and it does look like it for most areas it's going to hold off until the evening uh except for maybe the far interior, we'll get into something a little bit earlier than that, but um you know, it'll won't won't be an all-day thing here on Monday or excuse me, on Sunday, Mother's Day.

[00:04:55]This will be coming in uh later in the day or more likely the evening for areas further east with these showers. And that and that's about it. As far as our I wanted to go back to the precipitation expected for the Wednesday cold front.

[00:05:08]This is what we're generally looking at.

[00:05:09]Not a lot here, quarter to a half inch in most places. Not impossible to see somebody go slightly over that, but it's not really going to be the common theme across our region. A quarter to a half inch of rain expected with this particular uh frontal boundary. And it might get a little a little bit more in our southeastern areas if anything continues into Thursday. Right now, we're leaning against largely anything in the interior getting going on Thursday, also. So, that's why you have a little bit less in terms of total precipitation there. Uh once this frontal boundary moves through Sunday night to get those showers Sunday night, then Monday, it's off to our southeast. Very similar situation Thursday as is the case next Monday, where it'll be cooler temperatures, early clouds giving way to sun, maybe a shower in our southeastern areas closer to that boundary till it pulls away. I'm EPA WNEP meteorologist Bobby Martrich.

[00:05:53]That is your outlook for May 5th, 2026. Have a great Tuesday.