We have a superb weekend of weather coming up. Temperatures will be anomalously warm for this time of the year, with highs ranging in the mid-upper 80s. It will feel more like late July than late September. Excellent beach weather, if not for the continuing coastal impacts of Jose. The warm spell continues into next week. Our eyes turn towards Hurricane Maria, which after devastating Puerto Rico and Dominica, is now heading up the East Coast. Maria is not expected to make landfall, but it could still bring coastal impacts like Jose.

Rest of today – partly sunny with high temperatures around 80°F.

Saturday – mostly sunny, very warm, temperatures 10-15°F above average for this time of the year.

Sunday – high pressure remains in place with lots of sun and high temperatures again in the upper-80s.

Monday – sunny, temperatures in the upper-80s yet again.

Hurricane Maria

You can now see both Post-Tropical Cyclone Jose and Hurricane Maria in the same satellite image of the continental US. Because Jose has eroded the high pressure over the northwestern Atlantic, Maria will have a path to move northwards up along the East Coast. It does look like Maria will get picked up by a frontal boundary late in the week that pushes it out to sea though.