Improving Weather Conditions Across #newjersey #newyork #pennsylvania Rain Deep South & Southeast

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:01]Hi everybody, Joe Chaffee here. Weather in a minute. It is Tuesday, the 26th of May.

[00:00:06]And of course, now that the holiday weekend's gone, the weather has improved. And we've got mainly clear skies from Maine down into Pennsylvania and New Jersey. And you'll notice that the clouds from Canada are moving northwest to southeast. So much of this week across the northeast into the northern mid-Atlantic states is going to be controlled by that particular flow rather than the flow that's in the southern states. And there's a conveyor belt of moisture coming out of the Gulf of Mexico and shooting northward into the deep south and southeast. The rain is much needed. We've been getting some every single day here. And with some of that moisture is lifting up into Indiana and Illinois and then turning sharply eastward. So as long as we don't get any kind of buckling in the flow and I don't see how that's going to happen. I I think for much of the northeast and northern mid-Atlantic states most of this week, if not all of it, will be dry and probably staying dry into the weekend as that northerly flow is going to take over. Also, we're going to pay attention to what's going on in Atlantic Canada because low pressure is going to be developing there aloft. That is really going to be the driving force to keep the weather mostly on the dry side this coming week. Rain today extending from southern Missouri and southern Illinois eastward into Virginia. There's an east-west band there. And as the day goes on, we're likely to see moisture increasing across areas in the deep south and in the southeast. And that's where you see the bulk of the 7-day rainfall forecasts on the order of several inches. The Gulf Coast into Alabama, much of Georgia and South Carolina, and even into portions of southern southeastern North Carolina getting into the 2-in plus zone on top of the rain that has fallen over the last four or five days.

[00:01:52]Meanwhile, in the northeast, it's a a up in New England, but for the most part in eastern Pennsylvania to southern New England, we're looking at three basically a quarter of an inch or less and in most places a tenth of an inch or less. So, the only other thing I can really spend a little time on today is the fact that reflexively we're at a time of year where the strong late May sun means that as long as skies are no worse than partly sunny and as long as you don't have an ocean wind, you're going to see temperatures reflexively trying to climb up to 80 or better and we're going to see that today, at least away from the ocean and the same will probably hold for Tuesday for Wednesday, although there's moisture in the south that's just trying to nudge into Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, but I I think it just basically dries out and then we've got a front dropping down later Wednesday and that's going to bring down drier air and slightly cooler air for Thursday, Friday and for the upcoming weekend.