Good Friday everyone and welcome to the start of the Labor Day Holiday Weekend. This is a big weekend for outdoor activities and it is shaping up to be nothing short of a winner in that department as a shot of cool/chilly air moves in. The timing on the shot of fall could not be better! We will take a look at that and have some tracking maps for Hurricane Earl.

A cold front will be cross the state from west to east today. This front does not have a ton of moisture to work with… but the pure dynamics of the front will touch off a line of showers and thunderstorms that rolls quickly eastward. This line should not put down a whole lot of rain… but we will take what we can get. The rains should be out of the area in time for kickoff of most high school football games this evening.

Track the action here…

This will be a fairly windy front as it blows through here. High temps today will range from the 70s for much of central and western parts of the state to low 80s across the east. Those low 80s will generally be in the late morning hours before the clouds and storms move through.

Temps this evening for High School Football will be great for the second Friday in a row. Readings will fall into the 60s for second half action.

The real deal cool/chilly air will move in for Saturday and Sunday. We will start out our weekend with readings near 50 Saturday morning. Saturday’s highs are going to struggle to get much past 70 across the eastern half of the state… especially if we get some clouds to develop and that is a possibility. Winds will be rather gusty and this will add a slight chill to the air… especially if you are in a shaded area. The big Kentucky-louisville game out at the big slice will be played with temps in the 70-75 degree range. That will feel great considering how hot it can be this time of year… as we found out this week.

Sunday morning will start very chilly with readings down into the 40s for most areas. As a matter of fact… it is possible we approach record levels for some cities! Sunny skies will be with us once again during the day and that will boost temps into the low and mid 70s for highs for much of the area. That will be another WOW weather day.

Labor Day will see warmer temps fighting back in as readings head toward the lower 80s… but it still should be a comfy day overall with more sunshine.

Temps will head back into the mid and upper 80s for much of the middle and end of next week. It is by the end of the week when we should see our next threat for any rainfall.

Hurricane Earl continues to brush parts of the Mid Atlantic states as it rolls northward just off the east coast of the United Sates. Earl is likely to bring the wildest weather to parts of the New England coast tonight. It is very unlikely that it will make landfall along the east coast… but it will get close enough to cause some big problems.

Here are some tracking maps for Earl…

[Image of 3-day forecast, and coastal areas under a warning or a watch]

Have a great Friday and take care.