Heat and drought subside on Delmarva

Heading into the back half of August, Delmarva is in a position we haven’t been in for much of the summer, with a near normal temperature and precipitation forecast to round out the month.

After the exit of Debby last weekend, the resulting pattern shift has allowed for cooling high pressure to setup to our northwest, with times of cooler and less humid air moving in (as opposed to the typical Bermuda high that anchors to our southeast, enhancing stretches of heat and humidity). After a brief warming trend with the chance for storms this weekend, another weak cool front will move through by early next week, once again setting up a stretch of nice days with low humidity. Although it now appears less likely that tropical weather will influence our rain chances in the region for the next 2 weeks, below average precipitation trends will shift west of the mountains into the Ohio Valley and the Midwest.

And all of this comes on the heels of several heat waves that baked the area from late Spring into much of July, creating drought conditions for much of Delmarva. But after plentiful rain events in later July, and some added help from Tropical Storm Debby, much of Delmarva has recovered from drought status. Onset drought conditions remain on the western and southern parts of the peninsula.