After a week of consecutive heat headlines, whether they be Heat Advisories or Extreme Heat Warnings, a front dropping in from the north — and the accompanying unsettled weather — will take the edge off the heat for at least a few days.

A fairly standard but quite hot summertime pattern takes residence this week, keeping temperatures quite warm — perhaps threatening records at times — with the risk for a few afternoon thunderstorms each day.

Summer heat and humidity continues as we close June and start July, with sustained heat continuing into the Fourth of July weekend.

Weather worthy of the summer solstice will continue this week with highs in the 90s and a shot at afternoon thunderstorms each day.

Fairly standard summertime weather continues for the week ahead, though we shouldn’t run quite as hot as we did this past weekend, with no record highs in jeopardy of being toppled this go-around.

Heat and humidity will feature prominently in the forecast this week as a more summertime pattern takes hold.

Meteorological summer begins on Monday, but it isn’t going to feel much like it for a few days with unsettled weather to start and cool high pressure for midweek before temperatures rebound toward 90° by the weekend.

The upcoming week will have an early-summer feel with high pressure remaining in control for the first part of the week before a front stalls out nearby, bringing some rain chances back into the picture heading into the weekend.

I hope all of you out there who celebrated Mother’s Day today had a wonderful day. It ended up being a pretty good weekend weather-wise, with much of the moisture staying suppressed to the south. Monday, however, will bring more substantial rain chances as a cold front pushes south and eastward. We should stay quiet through the morning, though by early afternoon we should start to see showers and a few thunderstorms develop, first along the seabreeze and then becoming more widespread as the front moves by later in the day into the evening. There’s a risk for one or two thunderstorms to become severe, with damaging wind gusts the main concern, though widespread severe weather is not expected. We could see some brief periods of heavy rain, but with relatively quick storm motions expected, they won’t be hanging around long enough to cause any flooding issues. Temperatures will run on the warm side of normal for mid-May, with highs potentially reaching the upper 80s before thunderstorms kick in.

One of the driest Aprils on record will come to a somewhat unsettled end this week as the pattern starts to finally flip toward something a little more favorable for rain chances. We’ll run a little cooler, too, especially as we start May.