East Coast Weather Alert

Episode Transcript

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Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletierian
.
I'm the weatherman.
Thanks for checking in totheweathermanpodcom.
On your Saturday.
It is the 14th day of the monthof June, pretty close to
halfway through the month.
Now we're coming up on thefirst day of summer.
This upcoming Friday That'll beon the 20th at 1047 pm, the
summer solstice representing thelongest period of daylight, the
shortest period of nighttimefor the northern hemisphere and

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the beginning of summertime.
Of course, meteorologicalsummertime starts on June 1st.
That's because the sun risesearly, sets late and that's the
highest in the well, at leasthigh in the sky at high noon or
at least 1 pm for easterndaylight time and we get the
most amount of direct rays inmuch of the northern hemisphere,

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especially north of the ArcticCircle, and 24 hours of daylight
and that will continue forabout 10 or 20 days before the
sun starts to skim the horizonup in the Arctic Circle.
But around our weathersituation for the northeast
corner we deal basically from DCup to the Boston area, there's
Megagopolis.
Megagopolis is about, oh, I'dsay, 45 million people from DC,

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baltimore, if you includeRichmond, maybe a little bit
more up to about the Boston area, and when you're dealing with
that, many people in thatnortheast a lot of folks want to
know what the weather situationis and we usually have some
challenging weather and so farit looks like this month of June
.
It has been pretty nice attimes and other times it's been
just downright lousy, lousyweather, and that's what we're

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going to have this upcomingweekend Father's Day weekend
looking overcast and wet onSaturday, with occasional rain
and drizzle, and it looks liketemperatures on the cool side
because of a cool ocean.
This time of year the ocean's atits coolest starts to warm up
by later August and September,and by that time of course we're
starting to lose sunlight aswell.
So as the days start to get alittle bit shorter, the ocean

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temperature warms up.
Just enough lags by about twomonths as far as the weather is
concerned, but we do have thateast wind and it's going to keep
our temperatures in check,generally in the 60s to near 70.
As we head towards Sunday, itlooks like a mostly cloudy day,
little waves of low pressurealong a stationary front.
This basically lies fromsouthern Ohio across to northern

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West Virginia and just north ofRichmond and then off the coast
of Virginia and the DelmarvaPeninsula.
That will cause areas of cloudsin that east flow to continue
right up through at least Sundayand maybe even Monday.
But eventually high pressure isgoing to start to build in,
maybe by Tuesday and Wednesdayof this upcoming week, but it
may take a while for our weathersituation to straighten out.

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We need one of those big highpressure systems to build in and
maybe we'll get that towardsthe middle portion of this
upcoming week.
If you are flying or flying intothe New York area, say from
Europe, from Paris or London orfrom much of Europe, or even
from Asia, from Tokyo or fromSouth Korea, we are looking at

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the possibility of IFRconditions and maybe some slight
delays at JFK, but maybe anhour or two into the Newark area
because of weather delays there, and a similar situation for
LaGuardia.
If you're flying across thenation, of course going through
the hubs, newark is a hub forUnited Airlines and Atlanta is
the most busiest airport in theworld and there they're going to

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have overcast and rainyconditions, so there could be
some delays in and out ofAtlanta and that will probably
slow down the system.
All across the nation Scatteredand isolated.
Showers and thunderstorms incentral and south Florida.
Chicago is looking dry,minneapolis, st Paul, some rainy
weather, but nothing too heavy.
Both Houston and Dallas-FortWorth looking pretty good, as
does San Antonio and out in ElPaso, dry conditions there.

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Dry weather across the WestCoast continues.
There's a big area of highpressure is building in to the
Pacific Northwest, affecting SanFrancisco, portland and Seattle
, and, of course, typical dryweather with area of low
pressure that's generally acrosssouthern Nevada and over
Arizona.
That tends to give you thosewarming winds the circulation
being counterclockwise, comesdown out of the Santa Ana winds

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and that could cause some verywarm conditions there.
Central and South California noproblems weather-wise on your
Saturday.
I'm meteorologist, stevePelletier, and I'm the
weatherman.
Hope you have a great day todayand talk to you first thing on
Sunday.
Take care.