Cloudy with chance for scattered showers around Philadelphia Sunday; NEXT Weather Alert for rain Monday
The three Ds of weather will apply Sunday: Drizzly, damp and dank.
Scattered showers will persist throughout the day, Sunday night and into the Monday morning commute. It'll be especially wet across South Jersey and Delaware, and because of the inconvenient impacts on the AM drive, we've issued a low-end NEXT Weather Alert for the morning.
No severe weather is expected but roads will be wet, and that usually means slower drive times and more accidents.
Another impact on Monday will be the temperatures. We will only reach the mid and upper 40s, which is 15 degrees below average. That last time we spent a day in the 40s was way back on March 3.
The chill will last through Wednesday with overnight lows near freezing each night.
By next Friday temperatures recover to the upper 50s just in time for another round of rain that will extend into the weekend.
There is some good news with all this rain: Drought conditions across our area have improved. We still have an extreme drought over part of South Jersey, but that area is much smaller than in early January.
And we are quickly making up for our rainfall deficit, with 9.46 inches having fallen since January 1. That's just 0.99 inches below our average on today's date of 10.45 inches.
Here's your 7-day forecast
Sunday: Scattered showers. High of 57.
Monday: NEXT Weather Alert for early rain. High of 46, low of 10.
Tuesday: Breezy and cold. High of 47, low of 36
Wednesday: Very cold start. High of 50, low of 30.
Thursday: Turning cloudy. High of 56, low of 36
Friday: Rain. High of 59, low of 45.
Saturday: Rain chance. High of 58, low of 48.
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