When sun angle meets cold fronts: how seasons actually shift our weather

Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Hi, this is Mini Brother Steve Pelletier, and I
am the Weatherman.
Thanks for checking intotheweathermanpod.com on your
Wednesdays.
It's the eighth day of the monthof October 2025.
And well, we've had some verywarm weather to end September
last week and begin October.
Since the beginning of themonth, the temperatures have
been nice and progressivelywarmer.

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So temperatures on Sunday inmany places across the
mid-Atlantic and Northeast inthe mid to upper eighties, very
close to the 90-degree mark.
Doesn't get up to 90 in asituation like this in most
places because the sun's justnot out as long as it was.
Just say a couple of months ago,maybe three months ago in the
height of July and June, the sunrises early, sets later, and

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takes the longest path in thesky.
And of course, you get plenty ofsunshine heating up below our
atmosphere.
This time of year in October,the sun rises a little bit in
the east-southeast and sets inthe west-southwest.
And it takes a little bit moreof an angle to really heat
things up.
And we just don't get thatangle, especially if you have

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some cloud cover.
So we don't get the amount ofheating this time of year with
those warm southwestleas thatwe've been accustomed to.
Now, frontal system is movingthrough the area tonight and in
the early morning hours.
As uh the showers moved throughthe region.
There were some much neededrainfall.
It's been very dry through themonth of September and now here
into October so far.

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Possibility of maybe a half inchof rainfall on the eastern
seaboard from Boston down to DC.
However, it's going to beshort-lived by the middle
portion of the day.
The brisk northwesterly windswill start to clear things out.
And we're going to get intosunshine and a clearing trend
all across the mid-Atlantic,especially during the latter
portion of the day and at night.
Then that second cold frontmoves through.
Basically dry.

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That'll be on Wednesday night,and we get into fair, cool
conditions for Thursday, Friday,and Saturday.
Sunday, a little bit of aquestion mark.
Uh the U.S.
model, the what's called the GFSmodel, uh, is predicting the
some type of coastal low.
It's not tropical storm, Jerry.
Tropical Jerry off into thecentral Atlantic at this point
is expected to stay far off theeastern seaboard.

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But a secondary area of lowpressures expected to form
somewhere along the mid-Atlanticcoasts on Saturday evening,
early Sunday, could cause somerainy weather or some stormy
conditions in the east.
That would be sometime in eitherlater Sunday or Monday of next
week.
We'll uh update you as timecontinues the next couple of
days.
Now, if you're traveling today,of course, there are some

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showers and thunderstorms movingthrough in the early morning,
but it should clear out.
Maybe a few delays in themorning, but of course, keep in
mind the situation that thenation air controllers are in.
Um having uh limited uhpaychecks and uh a lot of sick
outs that are occurring, you'regetting uh a lot of delays uh
because there are just notenough folks to handle this

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properly.
So with that in mind, uh this isall about weather, and that's
another situation.
That's a political or a uhbusiness thing.
So not dealing with that here,but uh as far as the weather is
concerned, maybe some showers inthe Boston area, New York, a
LaGuardia, JFK.
Also, DC starts to clear out.
Fair weather in Chicago, fairweather in Minneapolis, uh looks

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like good conditions in uhHouston and Dallas, Central
South Florida, typical late-daythunderstorms there, nothing
much.
Drive from LA up to SanFrancisco, but looks like some
rain moving into Portland andSeattle during the daytime
today.
I'm Dogger, Steve Pelletier now,the Weatherman.
Hope you have a great day today,and we'll update you on that
developing coastal stormpossibility.
That's going to be happeningeither later Sunday or early

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next week.
We'll talk about that intomorrow's report.
See you then.
Take care.