There has been a drastic change in weather over the week as students returned back to school. ABC 27 Meteorologist Dan Tomaso says Hurricane Debbie has changed the weather pattern. While the hurricane is long gone, it essentially disrupted our summer weather pattern to the point that we had somewhat of a cooler weekend temperature wise this past weekend.

We had this deep dive of a broad area of low pressure that brought in some humidity from south, but also showers and thunderstorms. And for some folks, on Sunday of this past week we had some pretty strong thunderstorms, some heavy rain, especially in parts of eastern New York, western Lancaster County that all set the stage for more cooler air to follow. So oftentimes there's several steps to get where we are. And so, once that trough of low-pressure kind of dug in, it allowed cold air to drain southward from Canada. And I don't think anyone's going to totally complain, because this is kind of a taste of what we expect toward the end of September and October, but high temperatures, low to mid 70s. I was looking here this morning. We had 50s to our north and northwest. There could be some 40s and upper 30s that night leading into the next couple of mornings, especially if you're in a sheltered valley location. The air is very dry, but it's also very cool. So overnight, that leads to some chillier conditions leading into the next day. But unfortunately, if you're looking for rain, which we're doing fairly well in that department now, we may not get rain for another week. So, it is very, very quiet and very, very pleasant, which again, I don't think anyone's going to complain about.”

Tomaso predicts the wind will shift by the weekend, which will take us into summerlike weather.

“I expect by Saturday and Sunday will be in the middle to upper 80s and even early next week. So, the first day of school may be pretty hot. For those trying to plan all those new outfits that have been purchased. I think highs near 90 are possible next Monday and possibly into next Tuesday, and then rain chances may pick up Tuesday into Wednesday next week, but that's pretty uncertain at this point. And I guess the bigger story right now is this is moving into the peak of hurricane season. Ernest, though, went out to sea away from us again, leading to all this nice weather locally, but there's nothing really on the horizon for big rain chances from anything tropical.”

 

 

 

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