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Weather: Nights Longer Than Days For the Rest of the Year
Also, enjoy this week's heat and humidity, as cold lurks just around the corner.
You wouldn't know it from the mugginess in the atmosphere the past few days, but autumn began on Friday.
The earth’s axis tilts us away from the sun and tilts the Southern Hemisphere towards the sun for the next few months. Winter’s slow, cold march will soon be upon us and, over the next six weeks, the length of local daylight will drop significantly as we approach the beginning fringes of cold.
One of my favorite websites, sunrisesunset.com, allows you to track sunrise and sunset times for locations throughout the world, whether for towns, golf courses or other points of interest. The length of day locally officially closes below 12 hours on Tuesday, only to provide us longer nights than days from here on out until mid-March.
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Between this coming Tuesday and Nov. 8, daylight length will shorten from just under 12 hours to 10 hours and 14 minutes.
Sunsets, which are now before 7 p.m. locally, will quickly grow earlier each day before we reach 5 p.m. in early November thanks to the end of Daylight Savings Time. Average daytime highs are also about to take a tumble between now and early November, poised to drop 15 degrees over the next six weeks (from the lower 70s to the upper 50s).
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Enjoy the fleeting warmth while we have it—despite the humidity that will lurk over the coming days.
The coming week features a couple of warm days—Monday and Tuesday—where we could see temperatures get into the 80s before the slow-moving upper level low finally works into the region. The slow-moving low will bring showers and storms from late Tuesday into early Thursday morning, with some decent rainfall totals possible once again.
A stronger cool front will push the upper level low out of the picture on Friday and put an end to rainfall and storm chances for at least the remainder of the week. This stronger cool front will drop temperatures into the 60s for Saturday and next Sunday, with the possibility of some frost in the Poconos on Sunday morning.
Tom Thunstrom is editor, publisher and forecaster at Phillyweather.net, a website covering weather in the Delaware Valley.
