The hazy, sultry days of summertime has arrived in New England, temporarily. A Bermuda high pressure is lingering off our southeast coast and is creating a ridge in the atmosphere pumping humid tropical air clockrise into our region signaling a brief 4 day heat wave here. The configuration in the ridge will abruptly change at the end of the week as a dip in the jet stream will give us a sustained period of inclement and wet conditions like we had in early June through the 4th of July holiday. Use your movie passes next week!

In the news, the new word of the day is “Derecho”, derived from Spanish, meaning straight.  A long line of thunderstorms moved out the Midwest yesterday with straight line winds blowing outward from these clustered storms extending over 200 miles. This line of super cells follow a frontal boundaries separating cooler and moist tropical air. We were spared the wrath of a “Derecho” as it slid down a frontal boundary to our south. Unfortunately New England will be in the stable cooler air mass with rain heavy at times through early Friday morning. Can we withstand another 2″ of rain in our already super saturation ground.

Here we go again…another round of rain showers today, some quite heavy with lightning and thunder for good measure. Tomorrow will be the sweet filling of an oreo cookie as sunshine will the rule day with mild temperatures for June. Thursday will see a thickening and lowering cloud deck followed by another burst of heavy showers. Lowline flooding is a possibilty late Thursday into Friday. Then we save the best for last as this weekend will turn out brillant! Father’s Day will be near perfect wth abundant sunshine, low humidity and near normal temperatures of 79 degrees. Hopefully we can keep the string of nice days for early next week too. Stay tuned.

NAO means North Atlantic Oscillation, and when it’s in “negative” phase there’s a good possibilty of inclement weather. Usually in a negative NAO phase, low pressure systems ride along a trough (a dip in the jet stream) every few days on a boundary line line of warm humid air and and cooler air masses to the north of the trough. This NAO will remain in place for at least the next 10 days with cooler and wetter than normal conditions here in the northeast. Keep an umbrella handy!

Officially, the hurricane season begins June 1st and ends on November 30th. We’re only 7 days in this tropical season and the first named storm in the alphabet is ‘Andrea” with tropical characterists is moving quickly up the I-95 corridor with eyes on Connecticut. Andrea will be downgraded to a tropical low pressure as it hits the northern latitudes. The winds will diminish to under 35MPH but this moisture laden storm will spin off tropical rain bands on us for several hours. The end result as Andrea departs early Saturday morning will be 3 to 4 inches of rain. Small rivers and streams will quickly swell and low line areas will suffer its consequences. By late Saturday morning the sun will come and dry out our landscape. Sunday will be just fine with partly sunny skies and temperatures in the 80’s.

New England poets have been inspired by the regions early spring weather in April which brings on laughter, but at times languished because winters grip doesn’t let go. Snow fields still deep in eastern Canada retaining their wintery chill controls our weather here as the northern branch of the jet stream sends the super cooled winds to blanket us at times in April.

It’s a fact the tears will be filling our eyes from the biting cold wind that will be rattling the bird feeders the next couple of days. We may not see temperatures get above 40 degrees until Thursday. Wind chills will have a common number of teens and twenties making it feel right out of  mid February. Dress more for a mid winter football game tomorrow in New York for both the Yankees and Mets baseball game. But all this nonsense of early April cold will be a distant memory bringing on smiles and laughter as  more real springtime weather is just around the corner.

Mud season. The annual climatic visitor to the New England scene, never fails to make an appearance in March, though its commencement, duration, and end vary considerably from year to year, much as spells of Indian summer weather do in the autumn. Solar rays have increased in strength as we approach the equinox next week. Overnight thaws become regular and help melt the ground frost from the surface downward, creating an ever-deepening wet, soggy ground.

There will be a pause in “mud season” for awhile as another stubborn trough gets hung  up over the northeast. Arctic fronts will give one last attempt to rush through our borders for the next two weeks, with some cold nights, snow showers, wet snow mixing with a cold rain every four days.

Don’t let this lull in activity fool you. The morning snow and occasional brightening of skies will be the forerunner to what’s to come later. Bands of heavy wet snow will roll in from the ocean through late afternoon, tonight and likely through tomorrow mornings rush hour. Eastern Connecticut will feel the brunt of this activity with central and western Connecticut seeing a little less accumulation of snow. A range of 4-10 inches could be on the ground by mid-morning On Friday. Tomorrows landscape will have a  “Currier & Ives” look to it.

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