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Joe Lundberg · Newsradio WGAN

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  Joe Lumberg, senior meteorologist at AccuWeather,
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  who is here to talk to us about what we're going to see this
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  week in terms of weather. Is it going to be warmer?
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  Is the rain going to stop? I have questions.
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  Joe Lumberg, what's happening today, Sir?
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  Well, it's not going to be warmer this week and the rain is
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  not going to stop. It's going to return, although
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  later in the week, I think today, tonight or tomorrow, rain
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  free. So if you all are like me and
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  you need to cut the grass that's getting really shaggy, there's
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  your opportunity to do it. So the question that has been
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  asked much in the last week or two for people I know is when
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  are we going to get above that 50° mark?
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  I mean, like we got to get into the 60s here a little bit, get a
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  little bit of warmth. Come on, when's it happening?
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  Is it? It's not this week, apparently.
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  Not really, not this week. I mean I think today we're going
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  to be around 60 St. tomorrow, forget about it Wednesday and
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  Thursday and probably Friday. The good news is once this upper
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  level low gets out of our hair this weekend, it will warm, will
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  warm up. That's easy for me to say and I
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  think we could actually get to 70 on Saturday and Sunday.
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  Well, that's progress. Now is that going to be a new
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  reality Like is it, is that going to sort of reset the
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  temperatures from there on? Do I do I get 70s to look
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  forward to again or at least mid 60s or something?
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  I think once we get past this week, there's a subtle change in
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  the pattern and it involves what's going on downstream as
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  well as upstream. Downstream, The blocking that
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  has forced this cool air into our area repeatedly, you know,
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  for the past several weeks, looks like it breaks down.
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  So we get more of a W northwest slow aloft, and that allows
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  somewhat warmer air to come out of the middle part of the
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  country and work its way to the east on a more consistent basis.
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  So I think the second-half of May will be decidedly warmer
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  than the first half has been. And who knows, we may end up the
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  month with the temperatures on the high side of average.
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  It it doesn't seem conceivable out considering how chilly it's
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  been, but I think that that's the direction we're going.
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  Now, I know that we've been focusing on temperature here a
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  lot, but overall, it's been not nearly as rainy as last year,
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  but it's been, you know, there's been stuff, there's been stuff
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  floating in and out, including this last week.
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  Little things. There's been no big storms, but
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  there's been, you know, it seems like it wants to rain every two
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  or three days. Yeah, which is not that bad to
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  me. I mean, as long as it's a light
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  rain and it goes away and then we can actually, you know, be
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  outside and do stuff, that's fine.
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  But how do we think the rest of the next week or two is going to
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  be playing out in that respect? Is it going to continue to be
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  like that or are we going to dry out a little or what do you
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  think? I.
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  I, I think we, we'll have some somewhat longer stretches in
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  between rain events, but we're not going to go completely dry.
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  But I just don't think that we're going to have it every two
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  or three days. We're going to get a couple of
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  days of rain. I think there'll be some
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  stretches that might be formed, perhaps even 5 days where it
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  doesn't rain or there's no more than a shower during that four
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  or five days stretch. All right, Senior meteorologist
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  at AccuWeather, Joe Lumberg, nice enough to join us here to
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  give us a quick peek at the weather this week and beyond.
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  As always, Joe, we appreciate it.
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  I look forward to the better news as the spring marches on
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  and we get a little bit deeper. But this is getting there.
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  We're getting there, We're close.
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  I'm feeling OK. Memorial Day weekend's only two
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  weekends away. It's coming.
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  I don't suppose you have any kind of a peek at that yet?
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  Dude, I know that's way down. The line, but warmer.
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  Warmer than this. That's all I'm going to.
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  Say, all right, that's a fair, that's a fairpoint.
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  Thank you very much, Joe, as always, and we will talk to you
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  again very soon. Take care, yeah.