Severe weather risks elevated Kentucky to New York Saturday & Carolinas to Maine Sunday

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This Labor Day holiday weekend we have severe weather risk to deal with as two weather fronts are moving eastward across the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley and they both will be passing through the Eastern US. The first today will create rising risks for severe weather from Kentucky and Ohio northeastward to West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey & much of Upstate NY, These storms will develop this afternoon and then move eastward tonight. Along the coastal Plain from Maine to the Carolinas, much of the day and into this evening will be dry.

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The first front passes offshore tonight and that will be followed by a second front Sunday. This one will produce scattered showers and thunderstorms from mid morning to mid afternoon and not everyone will see them. The severe risk Sunday runs from Maine to Southern New England to New Jersey south into Eastern Virginia and the Carolinas. The risk is marginal meaning severe thunderstorms will likely be isolated in nature.

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There is a positive payoff to all this. A large cool dry Canadian air mass will be sweeping into the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley Sunday and then into the Northeast and Middle Atlantic states Monday making for a beautiful day of sunshine, low humidity and cool temperatures for Labor Day. In fact much if not all of next week will feature sunshine, low humidity and seasonal temperatures across much of the Eastern US and even in parts of the South. No major storms are on the horizon as the tropics remain quiet for now though there are indications we could have a tropical storm or hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico at some point in the next 2 weeks.