The threat of rain loomed over us for much of last week but little actually materialized. This week will be different. There are two “blobs” of rain that will threaten to attack us. These rain chances have the opportunity to be true soakers — think pouring rain for hours. The tricky part is nailing down where the heaviest axis of rain will be; it could be over Philly or farther north near NYC. The two rain “blobs” visit us on Wednesday and Friday. Wednesday’s rain is brought to us by a storm riding along a cold front; Friday’s rain will stick around for days and is associated with tropical storm Joaquin coming in from the ocean. Flooding is very possible in the region due to this storm.

The other highlight of the week is the temperatures. We could have a few days where temperatures do not get out of the 50s. Imagine it’s 52 degrees and raining on your Saturday morning. Yeah, that’s the type of disgusting weather we could be looking at here.  

Wednesday is the first day of our rain deluge. Look for heavy rain, especially in the morning.

Thursday will be markedly cooler with off and on downpours and drizzles here and there. Sorry, but it will be an awful day.

Friday will feature even heavier rain in the afternoon from a strong coastal storm coming in from the ocean. Temperatures will not get out of the 50s. So if you thought Thursday was bad, Friday is even worse.

Saturday will welcome the next wave of rain from the coastal storm which will continue to provide rain into Sunday, Monday and possibly even into Tuesday. It will not be raining the whole time but 2-3 hour periods of rain will hit us throughout each day. I’ll be “live tracking” the storms on Facebook and Twitter since every day this week could be rainy.

There really aren’t any weather winners this week, they all suck.

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