Tracking Hurricane Erin: Weekend Weather Update for August 16, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 0 (00:00):
Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletier
and I am the weatherman.
Thanks for checking intotheweathermanpodcom.
And it is for Saturday, the16th day of the month of August
2025.
Hurricane Erin formed and isnow going to be bringing some
rain to Puerto Rico and sectionsof the Dominican Republic and
Hispaniola, which includesDominican Republic and Haiti,

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but it looks like most of therain will stay off to the
eastern portion of there.
Heavy rain tonight throughSunday across the northern
leeward islands and the VirginIslands and Puerto Rico may lead
to isolated and locallyconsiderable flash and urban
flooding, along with somelandslides and, of course, some
mudslides.
But the storm looks like it'sgoing to stay offshore by
Tuesday, probably going to beoff the coast of South Carolina

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North Carolina by a pretty goodmargin, almost about a good 500
to 700 miles, and then it'sgoing to be turning up the
Atlantic, that's for sure,probably being east of New York
City by some time, either onlater Wednesday or Thursday.
But it does look like it'sgoing to stay offshore, reason
for that big frontal systemthat's going to be moving
through that front.
Arriving on Sunday evening willbring some cooler and more

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agreeable conditions as we headinto a good portion of the
second half of the month ofAugust.
So far, the month of August,surprisingly, in New York City
and even in Philadelphia, abouta degree below normal, mainly
because it's been so dry too.
Most shower action has been onthe light side.
Less than an inch of rain inmany places, and the amounts of

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rainfall that we're expectingfor Sunday evening look
extremely limited Does look likegenerally dry weather for this
upcoming week.
The storm is going to stayoffshore and it does look like
generally dry weather until nextweek and the week after that as
well, as we end into the monthof August.
So it's going to be a dry andcooler than normal month and
even though it has been quitewarm of late, it is going to

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start to change this upcomingweek, at least across the
Northeast Corridor, elsewhereacross the nation, although
there might be a few isolatedshowers in the New York,
philadelphia, easternPennsylvania and Maryland area,
even extending into southern NewEngland, it'll be on a very
light side.
The heavier rainfall is goingto be across the central Great
Lakes, including Chicago, but itdoes look like drier weather

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moving into Minneapolis and mostof Minnesota.
Down on the Gulf Coast.
It's Houston, new Orleans,pensacola, tallahassee, even out
to Jacksonville all going tohave some rainy weather.
The rain's probably on alighter side, or some scattered
afternoon showers in Atlanta andin Charlotte, but it doesn't
look like anything major.
It does look like, finally,some dry weather for the

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Tennessee Valley and the lowerOhio Valley.
There were some showers incentral and southern Ohio,
northern Kentucky today Fourcorners still with that monsoon
rains, and the rains extend allthe way up into sections of Utah
and South Dakota where there'sbeen locally severe weather in
western South Dakota and someshowers are moving into the
Pacific Northwest, in Portlandand Seattle.
Also the possibility of someshowers in San Francisco, but

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dry weather in LA and San Diegotoday.
I'm your host, steve Pelletieri,and I am the weatherman.
Don't forget to check out that70th anniversary of the flooding
in the Delaware Valley.
It's one of our reports from acouple of days ago.
You know, thinking back 70years ago, 1955, when two
hurricanes this week, on the12th of August and on the 17th

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of August, affected the DelawareValley, in particular eastern
Pennsylvania, phillipsburg andmuch of the Delaware River,
there was only 152 millionpeople in the United States then
.
Now it's double that.
So you can just imagine that ifwe had some type of storm like
that.
It would be catastrophic forsure.
But get to listen to thatpodcast on the 70th anniversary

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of the 1955 floods here atweathermanpodcom.
Hope you have a great day today, on your Saturday.
Talk to you first thing onSunday.
See you then.