Severe Weather Could Be On Tap For Tuesday

With the increased heat and humidity over the next two days, there will be more and more instability.  Combined with the approaching cold front on Tuesday afternoon and evening, there is a chance that we could see severe weather.

Temperatures will be rising into the low to mid 90s on Monday and Tuesday while dew points will be gradually climbing into the upper 60s to low 70s.  A heat advisory is already  in effect for Central Jersey and Southeastern Pennsylvania.

The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma has been monitoring the track of a cold front poised to move in from Canada to cool and dry things out late Tuesday night into Wednesday.  The SPC has already placed Central Jersey and Southeastern Pennsylvania under a slight risk for severe storms on Tuesday.

Further north, forecasters in the NWS office in Upton, New York have also indicated that there might be severe weather in Northeastern New Jersey as well as New York City’s five boroughs on Tuesday.  This spring and summer has been a fairly active one for severe weather with a tornado in Burlington County as recent as last week.

Previous severe weather outbreaks have produced powerful thunderstorms in Warren, Sussex, and Morris County in Northern New Jersey.  Here in Middlesex County, there has mostly been rain along with some gusty winds, so residents here have been able to emerge from these severe weather outbreaks relatively unscathed.