7:00 AM | Tornado touches down late yesterday just east of Penn State University; daily shower and thunderstorm threat continues well into next week
Paul Dorian
6-Day Forecast
Today
Partly sunny, warm, humid, showers and thunderstorms likely, some of the rain can be heavy and any storm can reach strong-to-severe levels, highs in the mid 80’s
Tonight
Evening showers and thunderstorms likely, some of the rain can be heavy and any storm can reach strong-to-severe levels; otherwise, mostly cloudy skies, muggy, mild, lows in the mid-to-upper 60’s
Saturday
Partly sunny, warm, humid, much rain-free time and only widely scattered showers and thunderstorms, low-to-mid 80’s
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, muggy, mild, scattered showers and thunderstorms, upper 60’s
Sunday
Mostly cloudy, warm, humid, showers and thunderstorms likely, low-to-mid 80’s
Monday
Mostly cloudy, warm, humid, showers and thunderstorms likely, low-to-mid 80’s
Tuesday
Mostly cloudy, warm, humid, showers and thunderstorms likely, low-to-mid 80’s
Wednesday
Mostly cloudy, warm, humid, scattered showers and thunderstorms, low-to-mid 80’s
Discussion
More heavy rain and thunderstorms returned to the region late yesterday causing flash flooding in some areas, but severe weather reports were generally confined to our west across central Pennsylvania. In fact, a tornado touched down late yesterday in Boalsburg - just to the east of Penn State University - and there was extensive street flooding throughout the University Park/State College region. Looking ahead, the combination of a strong upper level low pressure system anchored over the Great Lakes region and a nearly stationary extensive surface high pressure system off the east coast will keep a moist flow of air in place along the east coast for the next several days. While much of the time will be rain-free, showers and thunderstorms will remain a daily threat through at least the middle of next week and any shower can contain heavy rainfall and any storm can be strong-to-severe. Elsewhere, while the east coast remains in this very wet weather pattern, many western states will experience a major summertime heat wave. Strong upper level ridging out west will cause temperatures to soar to 100+ degrees in many of the interior locations of the Southwest US over the next few days. Death Valley, CA could top out above 120 degrees this weekend - its all-time high temperature is 134 degrees set in July of 1913.
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