Well, this is a really unusual Memorial Day weekend forecast, to put it mildly. Showers will be ongoing as we wake up Saturday with gusty winds and quite a chill in the air. We start the day in the upper 50s — well below normal for this point in the year. Showers and north winds will keep temperatures capped in the mid-60s. To give you a general idea of how abnormal this is for this point in May, the normal low is 66°, and the NWS forecast is 67°. That’ll be one degree off the record low maximum if it verifies.

Expect showers to continue for much of the day, though we will start to see rain taper off as drier air moves into the area later Saturday evening. Rain continues to taper Sunday, and we should start to see some breaks in the clouds. Highs will respond by warming into the mid-70s — still well below normal for this point of the year, but certainly not as chilly as Friday was.

By Memorial Day, we’ll start to ease back into a bit of a warmer pattern as an upper low finally gets out of here. We still start around 60° — very much on the cool side — before temperatures top out in the low 80s in the afternoon under partly cloudy skies. There will be a chance of a shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon, but certainly not the widespread precipitation that started the weekend.

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