Good morning everyone!
Skies are cloudy early on this Monday morning and it is quite mild with early readings ranging from 68 in Clifton down to 61 at Wantage, winds are calm or light southeasterly.
CLIFTON’S ALMANAC FOR JUNE 12TH:
AVERAGE HIGH: 79 AVERAGE LOW: 59
RECORD HIGH: 96 – 2017 RECORD LOW: 46 – 1979
YESTERDAY’S HIGH: 85 LOW: 59 PRECIPITATION: .05″
A frontal system will give us well needed rainfall today, we should have a chance of showers this morning but most of the heavier rain with thunderstorms should be from the middle of the afternoon through tonight. Temperatures will be seasonably mild but the humidity will be higher with dew points well up into the 60s. Rainfall amounts should be between 1/2 and 3/4 inches with some higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
The showers will end early Tuesday morning and we will have a dry and seasonably warm day with highs near 80 with much less humidity than today.
An upper air low pressure area will be over the Northeast much of the rest of this week likely giving us showers on Wednesday with still a chance of showers Friday and again on Sunday. Temperatures during this period will be near normal.
THE FORECAST:
TODAY – JUNE 12 – Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers this morning then showers and possibly some thunderstorms this afternoon, breezy and humid with highs in the upper 70s.
TONIGHT – Cloudy with showers and possibly a thunderstorm, low in the low 60s.
TUESDAY – JUNE 13 – Sunny, highs near 80.
WEDNESDAY – JUNE 14 – Partly sunny with a chance of showers in the morning then showers and possibly a thunderstorm in the afternoon and evening, highs in the upper 70s.
THURSDAY – JUNE 15 – Mostly sunny, highs in the low 80s.
FRIDAY – JUNE 15 – Partly sunny with a chance of afternoon and evening showers, highs in the upper 70s.
SATURDAY – JUNE 16 – Mostly sunny, highs in the low 80s.
SUNDAY – JUNE 17 – Partly sunny with a chance of afternoon and evening showers, highs in the low 80s.
MARINE FORECAST: TODAY – South-southeast winds to 15 knots, seas 2-3 feet.
OUTLOOK: No advisories expected Tuesday through Friday.
Have a nice day and stay safe!