Labor Day Warmth, Cool wet week, and the tropics!

Happy Labor Day!  The unofficial end to summer, sadly.

A very messy weather map this morning shows Hurricane Katia in the lower right corner.

The remnants of Lee are over LA and MS this morning with areas of Low pressure tracking up the cold front.

Cool high pressure builds in from Canada over the Great Lakes.

Here in New England, we should not have to worry too much about Katia, except for Nantucket and the Outer Cape, where some gust winds could occur Friday morning as Katia passes well offshore.

The cold front that stetched from Maine to Texas will break into two during the week with the northern part slipping by to the east allowing cooler air to flow into the region.  The area of low pressure associated with Lee will remain south and get trapped over the Ohio Valley and into Virginia.

Heavy rain is possible along the front as seen in this forecast.

This mornings radar shows rain stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada

Flash Flood watches extend from Maine to the Carolina's. Eastern New England will not see heavy rainfall.

Cold fronts can act as conveyor belts for moisture.  What will happen in the forecast is that the northern part of the front will push out to see, the southern part will remain and you will end up with a weather map looking like this for Tuesday into Thursday.

Rain will be focused along the frontal areas.. New England will lie south of the cold front, so expect temperatures to be cool, only in the 60's and 70s.    This front gets pushed out by late Thursday and the sun returns for Friday into Saturday, as the low to the south actually moves westward.