One Final Round Of Heavy Rain Tonight
By Steve MacLaughlin on May 9, 2012, 5:04pm
Use your ← → (arrow) keys to browse more stories.
The cold front that has been hanging just back to the west of Connecticut the last couple of days will finally move east tonight into Thursday and that means our weather will finally be improving.
The image above shows the satellite and radar just before 5pm on Wednesday and the surface front and lows.
If you look just back to the west of Connecticut you can see scattered rain in portions of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and the Great Lakes. You can also see a heavier batch of rain through Virginia, Maryland and southern PA. These two areas of rain will merge and move east this evening. That means the evening will see scattered rain showers and maybe even a little bit of lightning and thunder.
But the big story tonight will be that nasty wave of low pressure over the Carolinas riding along the cold front. Because the cold front is moving east and the low is moving north, the bull's-eye will actually go south and east of Connecticut, but we still get rain.
Most of CT will see heavy, steady rain tonight, but north and west will see lower amounts of rain. For much of the state, 1/2 to 1" of rain in possible with Southeastern CT seeing over 1" of rain.
The steady rain should be east by no later than 9am. And while the sunshine tries to work in on Thursday afternoon, a few stray showers could still pop up on Thursday afternoon and evening.
Use your ← → (arrow) keys to browse more stories.
