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Arcfield Weather provides 6-day weather forecasts for the Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and New York City metro regions in the Mid-Atlantic region as well as Huntsville, Alabama in the Southeast US and Denver, Colorado in the Rocky Mountain States. These forecasts are available each weekday morning with frequent detailed video discussions to help plan your day and week. Updated afternoon and weekend posts are frequently provided; especially, in times of rapidly changing or severe weather conditions.
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There were strong-to-severe thunderstorms yesterday afternoon and last night across portions of the Mid-Atlantic region and there can be a repeat performance later today and tonight across an even more widespread area. The combination of an incoming surface cold front, strong and intensifying upper-level support, increasing wind shear, and an entrenched warm and very humid air mass will help to destabilize the atmosphere this afternoon. Showers and thunderstorms should increase in coverage and intensity during the mid-day and early afternoon hours across central and western sections of the Mid-Atlantic and then these storms will trek to the east and likely reach the DC-to-Philly-to-NYC corridor during the mid-to-late afternoon/early evening hours (2-9pm timetable). Some of the storms are likely to reach strong-to-severe levels producing torrential rainfall/flash flooding, and potentially damaging wind gusts. The frontal system will hang up for awhile on Wednesday morning near the east coast and there can be lingering showers and thunderstorms along the immediate I-95 corridor and points from there to the coastal sections of New Jersey and the Delmarva Peninsula.
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Meteorologist Paul Dorian was interviewed on WTKI Radio in Huntsville, AL. Listen to the December 2016 appearance here and and the March 2017 interview here.