After weeks of seemingly never ending summer, we have our first true refreshing air making it all the way to the Southeast thanks to a cut off upper low drifting down over the Ohio Valley eventually make it into the Southeast. This will make for the coolest air since May for many.

The upper low cut off, this will be a multiday cloud and rain event but the formation of a surface low inland from the coast and upper low positioned further west, a tropical SSE flow will most certainly enhanced the rains up the coast.

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Upper anomaly shows nicely the southward drifting upper low and trough divorced from the main flow.

Expect a steady rain off and on from Wednesday through Friday with embedded thunderstorms where instability is enhanced, coastal winds in gale-force category will be felt from Hattaras to Cape Cod. Expect a widespread 1-3 inches of rain from the Piedmont of North Carolina all the way to southeast New England. With onshore winds blowing off a juicy Atlantic against the east facing Appalachian upslopes, we could see locally 4-8 inches.

Beneficial for the drought.

First 70s in a long time for Memphis, Atlanta and Charlotte this Friday.

You have to go back to May when Atlanta last saw back to back 70s.

Atlanta may well have seen their last 90 degree day of 2016 yesterday which makes for the 89th 90 and just 1 away from tying the most in a year.

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