Parts of New England had lingering rainfall and strong coastal winds on Sept. 20, but more rain is expected across the Northeast in the days to come.
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00:00Let's go to New England now near the coastline.
00:02That strong wind and coastal flooding at Cape Cod has been interesting to watch here near
00:06Sandwich driving some seawater inland.
00:09That's right Jeff.
00:10Now some parts of the Northeast have been seeing record dry starts here so far for the
00:13month including Boston.
00:15But the good news is here as we take a look at our radar over the past couple of hours
00:18you can see this area of low pressure just off the coast.
00:21That onshore flow is bringing moisture and that moisture is developing some showers,
00:26even some light rainfall here across the eastern portions of Massachusetts.
00:30So that's good.
00:31But the thing is we have another front that's pushing its way across the Great Lakes.
00:35That's what's going to bring the best chance of rainfall here across the Northeast as we
00:38head throughout the weekend.
00:40So how much rainfall are we expected to see?
00:42Well once again that area of low pressure is going to bring the most rain here across
00:46parts of Massachusetts, even Rhode Island, maybe even eastern parts of Connecticut.
00:50But that front as it makes its way across the Great Lakes is going to bring some much
00:54needed beneficial rainfall for western New York, central PA, even down through parts
00:58of West Virginia.
01:00And this area here of western West Virginia and southeastern Ohio, they are in an exceptional
01:06drought so they will take every drop of rainfall we can get here out of these systems and these
01:11fronts as they make their way through this weekend.
01:14So the overall setup for Saturday you can see that blink and you'll miss it, squint
01:17and you'll miss it, that little sliver of green right there on eastern Massachusetts.
01:21That's where we'll see some of those showers but most of the heavy rainfall will be along
01:25the front stretching from Buffalo, western PA for Pittsburgh down through Charleston.
01:29That's where we'll see the best chance of organized rainfall here for Saturday.
01:32On the back side of that high pressure will take over and we'll actually see some warming
01:36conditions here for your Saturday afternoon.
01:38But then as we head into Sunday that warming is slowly going to translate to the east as
01:42the area of high pressure dominates.
01:44We will still see some lingering rain chances there, possibly some storms stretching from
01:49central PA down through Baltimore, Washington, Virginia Beach, we'll watch out for that.
01:53But still on the back side warm weather developing with another front bringing more rainfall
01:58chances into Chicago primarily so Chicago is going to be rainy there on Sunday so heads
02:03up for that.
02:04In the meantime here for your Saturday afternoon you can see some of the impacts here of the
02:07rainfall, only 62 in Boston.
02:10The farther west you go, the farther southwest you go, the warmer the highs will be including
02:1492 Saturday for Columbus.
02:17It's going to be a hot day out there where Ohio State is.
02:20So as we head into Sunday, some cooler air pushing in but overall we're still going to
02:24see some hot areas for Columbus and Charleston.
02:27But DC, Virginia Beach we'll see some rain cooled 70s, Boston, Portland some 60s here
02:32so definitely going to see some off air, offshore winds cooling things down.