Much-Deserved Beauty Saturday
By Steve MacLaughlin on May 11, 2012, 4:57pm
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The image above shows the GFS weather model at 18z (2pm) on Saturday, and for you weather-lovers, you know this is a map that means incredible weather. The black, solid lines are lines of equal height at 500mb and the yellow and orange shading is vorticity or unsettled weather.
The first part of Saturday's great weather will be the temperature. Check out how the 500mb heights go up and over the Eastern US. That's a ridge that will allow temps to be near 80°.
The second part of Saturday's great weather is the sunshine. You can see that big area of low pressure just north of Maine in Canada. This low drove through the cold front that brought all of the rain that ended yesterday. And It also brought some clouds on Friday. But with that low lifting to the north, we get all of the dry weather coming in from the west.
As that ridge breaks down on Sunday and we get into more of a southwesterly flow, the clouds will roll in to CT for Mother's Day and a few showers or storms could pop up, but most of the day should be dry. Better chance of rain Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
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