Halloween may be full of frights, but the weather won’t be one of them — seasonable and quiet weather is in store heading into Sunday with high pressure in control. Lows Friday bottom out in the mid-40s in the metro, with perhaps even lower temperatures further inland and in rural areas. We’ll warm to the mid-to-upper 60s in the afternoon with predominantly sunny skies and a gentle breeze out of the west. Saturday is essentially a carbon copy of Friday, though winds will be a little calmer and shifting direction out of the northeast and east. Don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour Saturday night as we fall back to Standard Time.

We’ll start to see dewpoints to climb back up and cloud cover begin to thicken as Sunday goes on in advance of the next storm system advancing out of the Gulf. Rain should hold off for the vast majority of the day, though a shower or two can’t be ruled out in the late evening. Temperatures on Sunday run a little warmer, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s and highs approaching 70° despite the increasing cloud cover.

Tropics: Melissa approaching Bermuda

Hurricane Melissa will bring squally weather to Bermuda tonight as it continues to accelerate northeastward through the Atlantic. It’ll begin to lose tropical characteristics as we get through Friday, making its extratropical transition by Saturday while its wind field slowly winds down. It’ll still be packing 85 MPH winds as it clips Newfoundland on its way to splitting the uprights between Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

Elsewhere, the tropics are quiet as we head into the last 31 days of hurricane season. We’ll continue to monitor areas in the Caribbean and Gulf for possible mischief, but we’re in the home stretch now, and climatology suggests that the risk for anything tropical making it this far north and west would be highly out of the ordinary as we transition further into the cool season.

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