For all those in the northern U.S. who have been sweltering for weeks, cooler temperatures are headed your way later in the week, according to forecasters at AccuWeather.
A jet stream is expected to move south and pull cooler, less humid air with it as it moves across the Great Lakes and then through the Ohio Valley into the Northeast by Friday.
“While the first half of the week will bring stifling heat and humidity to much of the East Coast, a cold front will begin to make some progress to the south and east starting Wednesday,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Carl Babinski said of the coming coolfront.
The change will be drastic, with cities like Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., that just last week saw record high temperatures quickly dropping to five degrees or more below their normal average.
And as the coolfront moves through and out towards the Atlantic Ocean, it is expected to take much of the lingering humidity along with it.
In fact, northeasterners who wish to enjoy the Perseid meteor shower at its height on Thursday night may actually need to dress warmly or bring along a blanket.
However, those cool nights aren’t expected until midweek at the earliest, so don’t go putting away the shorts just yet. Temperatures in the early part of the week are expected to remain around 100 degrees for the area.
And of course, such a drastic change usually comes with an array of wet weather, and that will certainly be the case with this coolfront, so the northern U.S. from the Great Lakes eastward should expect sometimes severe thunderstorms midweek.
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