October has been extremely dry so far in the Northeast, but on the bright side, warmer temperatures are in store for the weekend.
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00:00We're going to jump into the northeast, a quick look at what's going on out this way.
00:03You might notice there's a big storm way offshore as the sun sets here.
00:08The satellite hybrid here, we're looking at kind of both a visible and infrared look at the same time.
00:13But the center of circulation is a pretty healthy storm, not a tropical entity, but is drifting away.
00:18This actually at one point was bringing a little bit of rain into the outer banks,
00:21but is hooking it away and out to sea.
00:24And a satellite assessment of where the rain is, it's pretty far out there,
00:28so we're not going to see a drop associated with that.
00:30Really quiet weather pattern for most of us in the northeast.
00:33Closest action has been a little bit of wind up into Marquette in Michigan, 39,
00:3740 mile per hour gusts in some of these areas.
00:39But the wind is thankfully a little drier or less active here for the northeast
00:43because I say it's fortunate because we've been so dry.
00:46Fire danger would be volatile here if we did have stronger wind.
00:49We haven't had measurable rain in Philly since September 29th.
00:52Trenton, same date, in New York City at Central Park.
00:55Last time we had measurable rain was way back on September 30th at Atlantic City,
00:59just the very beginning of the month.
01:01And going big picture all the way back to August 20th, over the past two months,
01:05we've had less than a half inch of rain in Iceland.
01:07That's only 5% of normal.
01:09In Philadelphia, we should have 7.7 inches of rain.
01:13We've had 10% of that in that same interim.
01:16So very dry weather out there, and just for the past 16, 17 days,
01:20the driest start to October on record in New York.
01:23We'll accompany in Philly and Nashville as one of the other years
01:26without a drop of measurable rain by this point.
01:29But as time progresses, we're going to stay dry,
01:32and some of those other years in history did eventually pick up some rain around the 20th or later.
01:36It's chilly out there in Boston, 53 right now, still 68 into D.C.,
01:40but we've got frosty weather, and comparing where we are tonight with average,
01:44we're running a little colder than the norm, especially in Charleston.
01:47But the warming trend, Damien, takes over over the next several days,
01:50beginning with tomorrow afternoon.