Delmarva will enjoy a pleasant start to the week with seasonable temperatures, lower humidity, and mainly sunny to partly cloudy skies through Tuesday. Minor coastal flooding is expected again with Monday evening’s high tide along the Atlantic coast and Delaware Bay. Heat and humidity return by midweek, with a chance for severe thunderstorms Thursday afternoon and evening before a fantastic Father’s Day weekend settles in.
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Delmarva will see a cloudy and humid day today as a warm front lifts north, bringing scattered showers and thunderstorms late this afternoon into tonight. A few storms could produce damaging wind gusts and heavy downpours. Dangerous heat and humidity build Thursday and Friday, with heat index values potentially reaching 95 to 104 degrees and additional severe storm chances.
Showers and thunderstorms may move into Sussex County early Wednesday, with additional storm chances through the day before humid conditions continue into early Thursday.
Isolated showers or storms may arrive around dawn Wednesday before Sussex County sees a more unsettled, humid day with additional thunderstorm chances.
Delmarva starts the week cooler and much drier behind a backdoor cold front, with mainly dry weather expected through Tuesday. Temperatures will quickly rebound by midweek, followed by dangerous heat and humidity Thursday into Friday, along with daily thunderstorm chances from Wednesday through the weekend.
Delmarva’s early taste of summer continues today as temperatures climb into the upper 80s to low 90s under mostly sunny skies. After Georgetown tied its record high of 87 yesterday, more record highs are possible today with southwest winds at 10 to 15 mph. The warmth holds through Thursday before a weak front slips through late Thursday night, followed by a cooler but still mild Friday and Saturday. A stronger cold front arrives Sunday with scattered showers and thunderstorms possible late, then much cooler air settles in early next week with highs dropping into the 50s and 60s and even a chance for frost by Tuesday morning.
Sussex County will see a transition from isolated evening storms to sunny and warm weather through late Thursday, with a high-pressure system bringing drier conditions and temperatures reaching the mid-80s.