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Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletierian. I'm the weatherman. Thanks for checking in to theweathermanpodcom. On your Saturday. It is the 14th day of the month of June, pretty close to halfway through the month. Now we're coming up on the first day of summer.

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This upcoming Friday That'll be on the 20th at 1047 pm, the summer solstice representing the longest period of daylight, the shortest period of nighttime for the northern hemisphere and the beginning of summertime. Of course, meteorological summertime starts on June 1st. That's because the sun rises early, sets late and that's the highest in the well, at least high in the sky at high noon or at least 1 pm for eastern daylight time and we get the most amount of direct rays in much of the northern hemisphere, especially north of the Arctic Circle, and 24 hours of daylight and that will continue for about 10 or 20 days before the sun starts to skim the horizon up in the Arctic Circle. But around our weather situation for the northeast corner we deal basically from DC up to the Boston area, there's Megagopolis. Megagopolis is about, oh, I'd say, 45 million people from DC, baltimore, if you include Richmond, maybe a little bit more up to about the Boston area, and when you're dealing with that, many people in that northeast a lot of folks want to know what the weather situation is and we usually have some challenging weather and so far it looks like this month of June. It has been pretty nice at times and other times it's been just downright lousy, lousy weather, and that's what we're going to have this upcoming weekend Father's Day weekend looking overcast and wet on Saturday, with occasional rain and drizzle, and it looks like temperatures on the cool side because of a cool ocean.

Speaker 0: 1:40

This time of year the ocean's at its coolest starts to warm up by later August and September, and by that time of course we're starting to lose sunlight as well. So as the days start to get a little bit shorter, the ocean temperature warms up. Just enough lags by about two months as far as the weather is concerned, but we do have that east wind and it's going to keep our temperatures in check, generally in the 60s to near 70. As we head towards Sunday, it looks like a mostly cloudy day, little waves of low pressure along a stationary front. This basically lies from southern Ohio across to northern West Virginia and just north of Richmond and then off the coast of Virginia and the Delmarva Peninsula. That will cause areas of clouds in that east flow to continue right up through at least Sunday and maybe even Monday. But eventually high pressure is going to start to build in, maybe by Tuesday and Wednesday of this upcoming week, but it may take a while for our weather situation to straighten out. We need one of those big high pressure systems to build in and maybe we'll get that towards the middle portion of this upcoming week.

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If you are flying or flying into the New York area, say from Europe, from Paris or London or from much of Europe, or even from Asia, from Tokyo or from South Korea, we are looking at the possibility of IFR conditions and maybe some slight delays at JFK, but maybe an hour or two into the Newark area because of weather delays there, and a similar situation for LaGuardia. If you're flying across the nation, of course going through the hubs, newark is a hub for United Airlines and Atlanta is the most busiest airport in the world and there they're going to have overcast and rainy conditions, so there could be some delays in and out of Atlanta and that will probably slow down the system. All across the nation Scattered and isolated. Showers and thunderstorms in central and south Florida. Chicago is looking dry, minneapolis, st Paul, some rainy weather, but nothing too heavy. Both Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth looking pretty good, as does San Antonio and out in El Paso, dry conditions there.

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Dry weather across the West Coast continues. There's a big area of high pressure is building in to the Pacific Northwest, affecting San Francisco, portland and Seattle, and, of course, typical dry weather with area of low pressure that's generally across southern Nevada and over Arizona. That tends to give you those warming winds the circulation being counterclockwise, comes down out of the Santa Ana winds and that could cause some very warm conditions there. Central and South California no problems weather-wise on your Saturday. I'm meteorologist, steve Pelletier, and I'm the weatherman. Hope you have a great day today and talk to you first thing on Sunday. Take care.