A Damp, Cool Start To Today

The rain hasn't been as robust as thought so far but the damp, dreary chill as been rather ugly by late April standards as we sit in a damp easterly surface flow and in an overrunning pattern, with weak impulses of rain and showers tracking along a warm front that is south and west of the area.   Eventually, that warm front slides north enough to warm everyone up but it will take three days for that warm front to fully lift north -- and in the process of that slow march north we'll have precipitation chances here and there.   However, the front will slide north enough to warm up the city late today into the 60's and for Easter Sunday into the 70's.

Showers are working east this morning through Central Pennsylvania -- with another batch out by Pittsburgh -- and will pass through the region this morning and early this afternoon.   Things will be damp, occasionally rainy, and raw as temperatures slowly climb into the 50's by midday.  Those 60's will probably occur closer to dinner time as the Western PA batch of rain exits and the warm front sneaks through Philadelphia.   Rainfall today totals a quarter inch.   We also can't rule out a thunderstorm after 4 PM as the warm front moves in and some instability agitates the atmosphere enough to perhaps trigger a storm or two in spots.   The afternoon/evening thunder threat shouldn't be widespread or nasty by any stretch.

The front's northward advance slows to a crawl on Sunday -- generally north of Philly but not by a terrible amount -- and with another disturbance poised to lurch northeast along the frontal boundary thunderstorms will be possible on Sunday afternoon...some of which could be severe.  A slight risk of severe weather is out for Sunday across the region.

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