Good evening everyone. Well, so much for the severe weather threat. What seemed to be shaping up as a day for severe storms in the Garden State didn’t pan out. Despite the extremely warm temperatures, sunlight, and moisture in the atmosphere during the peak heating of the day, the dynamics weren’t there for any severe thunderstorms to develop unless you were in parts of Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, and Ocean counties late this afternoon.

Much of the heavy weather stayed well to the south in Virginia and North Carolina. Some of the severe thunderstorms down there even produced some tornadoes. There have been some scattered showers and thunderstorms in Northeastern Pennsylvania, and Southeastern New York, but nothing organized in our neck of the woods. There are still more organized clusters of showers and storms in Central and Western Pennsylvania, but it is becoming less likely that they will affect our area.

One thing is for sure from today’s weather, and that is the warm weather may be finally here to stay. Throughout the day, I had been monitoring the Weather Channel and Weatherscan, and I noticed how the high temperatures forecasted for the rest of the week have been gradually going up. It wasn’t as enthusiastic over the weekend or on Monday. Now, we are looking at the 80s for the rest of the week with very nice weather tomorrow and Thursday. Next chance for storms is on Friday.

There is still severe weather to talk about tonight. Another tornado outbreak is taking place in the Southern Plains. Several wedge tornadoes developed late this afternoon in Oklahoma, and have left several people dead. In addition, the bad weather may be headed in the direction of Joplin, Missouri, which has already dealt with a deadly and devastating tornado earlier this week.