By Brian Lada, Meteorologist
May 31,2015; 11:58PM,EDT
June marks the start of Meteorological Summer, but the summer warmth experienced in New England at the end of May will not continue into the opening days of the new month.
Instead, much of the New England states can expect cool, cloudy and wet weather during the first part of the new week.
People across the region will want to keep their umbrellas close by on Monday and Tuesday as rain dampens cities such as Boston, Massachusetts, Providence, Rhode Island, New Haven, Connecticut, and Portland, Maine.
"Worse than threatening to ruin outdoor plans, there is concern for the rain to pour down heavily at times, leading to flash flooding," stated AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski.
The clouds and rain will help keep temperatures in the 50s across much of New England for the first few days of June, the equivalent of 10 to 15 degrees below normal.
"The chill will have many people thinking that the calendar was actually flipped back to April," added Pydynowski.
Temperatures will not run nearly as low farther south with areas from New York City to Pittsburgh topping out around 70 F and Baltimore and Washington, D.C. reaching around 80 F.
However, this is still noticeably cooler than the last week of May when temperatures in the mid-Atlantic states reached the 80s and lower 90s on a daily basis.
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While some people may not like the cooler weather this late in the year, the rain accompanying it is needed across the region.
Much of May has been abnormally dry across the Northeast with the region only receiving a fraction of the rain that it typically receives during the month.
New York City, for example, received only 0.40 of an inch of rain from May 1 to May 30. This accounts for only 10 percent of what The Big Apple typically receives in all of May.
Even though the early week rain is not likely to balance out the rain deficit across the Northeast, this rain will help to water lawns, gardens and other vegetation this is thirsty for some rain.
The cooler, wet weather pattern is not expected to stick around the region for long.
By Wednesday, the flow will become southerly and another warming trend will be underway for the Northeast, said AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams.
This will result in a stretch of dry days with temperatures running closer to normal than earlier in the week.
Temperatures are not forecast to be as high later in the week as they were during the last week of May. Additionally, the humidity will not be as high either, resulting in lower AccuWeather.com RealFeel® temperatures.
Anyone with outdoor plans on Monday or Tuesday may want to consider moving them to later in the week if possible to account for the flip in the weather pattern.
- Grant McGuire · Top Commenter · Western Connecticut State UniversityWhen will a true summer pattern take hold? I'd really like see 90 before July this year.
Brent Richardson · Top Commenter · Rochester, New YorkThe average temperature for May 31st/June 1st is 73 degree in Rochester, NY. Today, the high was 47 degree and tomorrow will be 52 degree. That's 25 degree BELOW AVERAGE. Like I said, month of may was just a tease month. El Nino is not strengthening, it's starting to weakening which means we are back on same old pattern, hot west and cold east. Looks like we will have another brutal winter this year. 3 more months till fall comes in! :D
Looks like we will have cool summer this year in the northeast. I'm satisfied with that!
Christopher E. Corrigan · Top Commenter · Floor organizer/Trouble shooter at Self/Boston Globe
Cory Morrison · Follow · Top Commenter · Filing/Inventory Clerk at Independent Distributors Inc.If this keeps up for a lot of the summer, 2014 and 2015 may be the first time since 1996 and 1997 where we have had two unusually cool summers in a row.
Aaron Ginther · Top Commenter · Central Virginia Community CollegeThe Capital Weather Gang in DC is predicting a summer pretty similar to the last two for the lower Mid-Atlantic. Slightly hotter than normal but nothing like 2010-2012. But they did say the summer could be a little hotter than last summer with more hot days, especially in July. But August is predicted to be cool once again.- Aaron Ginther · Top Commenter · Central Virginia Community CollegeThis is how last summer played out for me last year:
June 2014: +1.6F.
July 2014: -1.4F.
August 2014: -2.9F.
Our departures from normal stay fairly low in the summer months, so August's -2.9F was impressive. But I do think this August has the potential to be somewhere around the same ball park as August 2014. I think you'll be right about July 2015, since last summer we had the repetitive intrusions from the polar vortex. Out of all 3 months, the one I remain most uncertain about is July.
Heidi Schechter · School Psychologist at Worcester Public SchoolsAnd pray for us to get lots of rain its been very dry like california.. But rain is good for the grass and plants so feel bad for you guys in ca.... I'm already sick of this 80-90 degree weather!
Ted Dilbert · Balmoral, Belfast, United KingdomThis four cast is rung. Eye was rite wane eye sayed the fund wood stahl an it did. It now is go ink too bee hot steel too morrow on the east codes. They origin alley sayed bee fore it wood bee coal in the Mid Atlantis but now they sayed it wheel steel bee hot too morrow as whale. the worm aire and dry sole is co sing feed beck it wheel not gate coal in Nu Inkland.- Christopher E. Corrigan · Top Commenter · Floor organizer/Trouble shooter at Self/Boston Globe
Randy Cole · Works at Self-Employedextreme abnormal weather is new normal--
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ article/ weird-winter-weather-plot-t hickens-as-arctic-swiftly- warms/
this article does not address geoengineering.
David Colantuono · Top Commenter · Works at UnemployedEvery bit of rain we get is most welcome. It's been much too dry in the Northeast as of recently. I feel like we're becoming like California with this very dry pattern. I feel very sorry for those of you who live in California and I know what it feels like now.
Somebody please pray for rain in California and for us in the Northeast.- Christopher E. Corrigan · Top Commenter · Floor organizer/Trouble shooter at Self/Boston Globe
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