First Alert Weather Extra: 3 day forecast features first alert weather day Thursday

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[00:00:00]Speaking of August 2nd, that's a big date for us.

[00:00:03]>> So, as of today, sunset shifts into the 8:00 hour. Yes, and it will be in the 8:00 hour until August 2nd. So, remarkable. Well, serendipitous there. While we're thinking of summer, talking about August here, let's bring things back to reality and talk a bit about frost here. We've shown this map quite a bit here over the last couple of months, really, sort of giving you the first alert to when the frost season really begins as as everything starts to grow. And now we're talking about the tail end of it. Typically, we see our final frost of the season at the shoreline April 11th through the 20th.

[00:00:34]This light blue shading that encompasses most of inland Connecticut April 21st through the 30th. Well, now we are in the second week of May, and it's in the first 2 weeks of May where we usually see our final frost across the Litchfield Hills, the western hills of rather the hills of western Hartford County, I should say, and the northeastern hill towns of the state.

[00:00:54]And frost is a headline tonight, but not for us. We see frost advisories in this purple periwinkle color here, if you will. The turquoise is where the freeze warnings are up. And there is a difference between frost and freeze.

[00:01:06]We'll talk about that in a second, but wanted to talk briefly about the geography of this. So, it's parts of Vermont into New Hampshire where freeze warnings are up, frost advisories into western Maine, the Berkshires, say into parts of the southern Adirondacks there.

[00:01:22]And then most of New York state actually under a freeze warning, and that drops down not only into Pennsylvania, but check this out, all the way down into the highlands of West Virginia, Pocahontas County south of that. Frost advisories up, and also for some of the highlands of western Virginia. So, that's going to be a big headline across a lot of the eastern northeastern United States. 32 to 36° is the temperature range in which frost can form. Sometimes just above the earth's surface, the ground rather the air temperature is just a little bit lower than we typically would see as measured 2 m above, which is where the thermometers are at all of the weather stations. So, below that 20 to 32 is when you see a freeze. And here's a look at the forecast temperatures across the region tonight. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania coming at 37. Look at Buffalo, 34. 35 in Burlington, 37 Portland, Maine a little bit lower in between. So, that's where we see the greatest risk of frost. Note that this does not include Connecticut.

[00:02:18]If you're looking at Boston, New York, we're thinking lower 40s, lower 40s for the Hartford area, too. Looking ahead, the 8 to 14-day outlook brings us from May 19th through the 25th, Memorial Day Monday. These shades of orange indicating that as things turn milder, well, frost will certainly not be much of a concern. And Mark, we really don't have to wait too long for the milder air to work its way into the state. Yeah, yes indeed. And tomorrow, much brighter day compared to today. And then things start going downhill with some of that beneficial rain on the way. We are going to be unsettled basically starting Wednesday. The worst of it coming Thursday. That is our wettest day, our first little weather day with thin showers tapering off in a more isolated nature as we close out the week on Friday. And then the weekend, yes, trending warmer. Temperatures back above average. Average high right now is in the lower 70s. We're going to be pushing closer to 80 before the weekend is over.

[00:03:07]Right now across Connecticut here as we approach the 7:00 hour between 55 and 60 in many locations. The cloud cover breaking up. So, from atop Hartford 21, you can see Bushnell Tower there, the Wadsworth, the Gold Building, and rays of sunshine reaching our capital city as the cloud cover is breaking up. coming in from Waterbury. We're at 58 degrees.

[00:03:28]Also from New Haven, currently 56. So, really nice evening underway for most of us. From Old Saybrook, a little bit cloudier heading farther east along the shoreline. Couple breaks in the clouds.

[00:03:39]Looking live from Mystic. So, generally speaking, it'll go from the 50s this evening into the 40s overnight. And as Mike was alluding to, some upper 30s in the mix across the hills of Northwest Connecticut. Elsewhere inland, lower 40s.

[00:03:51]Between 40 and 45 along the 95 corridor.

[00:03:54]So, temperatures are running about 5° below average. Tomorrow afternoon, up between 60 and 65. So, still cool for this time of May, but it's going to feel much better given the the bright sky that we're going to have from the morning right on through the afternoon.

[00:04:08]Here's a look at Wednesday morning First Alert Futurecast. High pressure that's going to bring us the dry and bright weather tomorrow shifts offshore. So, we'll have some morning showers, some occasional showers throughout the day on Wednesday. By no means a washout. The rain begins to ramp up Wednesday night.

[00:04:22]And here you can see just streaming right in, all compliments of this area of low pressure cut off from the flow aloft. It's going to be moving right across southern New England. So, that's going to keep things unsettled, periods of rain steady at times heavier Thursday. So, impacting both commutes.

[00:04:35]Uh so, looking ahead to uh the the the all-in totals Wednesday through Friday, the American model painting 1/2 in to an inch, a little bit more robust coming in from the European model, but also the heaviest of that rain to the west of us here in Connecticut. So, something we're going to be monitoring closely, but regardless, uh we're going to be trending cooler as well as we head through the rest of the work week before that weekend warm-up uh kicks in. Much more on that coming up, Mark.

[00:05:02]All right, Mark. Thank you.

[00:05:07]Then, parts of Oklahoma blanketed by pea-sized hail over the weekend. Uh it really left a slick coating on the ground and even led to some crashes. The hail was so intense, it almost looked more like winter than spring.