{"id":183228,"date":"2025-08-28T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183228\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:37:08","slug":"labor-day-weekend-weather-in-philadelphia-looks-fabulous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183228\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day weekend weather in Philadelphia looks fabulous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \"><a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/weather\/erin-coastal-flooding-nj-rip-currents-20250818.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/weather\/erin-coastal-flooding-nj-rip-currents-20250818.html\">No tropical storms. No rip currents<\/a>, and the water is warm. No rain, and not even many clouds from Cape May Point to Quakertown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Could this really be a Labor Day weekend?<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">\u201cIt should be a beautiful way to close out the summer season,\u201d said Eric Hoeflich, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Highs are expected to be in the mid- to upper 70s Friday through Monday, maybe reaching 80 degrees on the mainland on Labor Day, with clouds scarce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Late Thursday afternoon, surf temperatures were near 75 off Steel Pier in Atlantic City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">And with no hurricanes or tropical storms currently plunging the Atlantic Ocean, \u201cI don\u2019t see much in the way of rip currents,\u201d Hoeflich said.<\/p>\n<p>August has taken a dramatic turn toward the cooler<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The warmth in the Jersey Shore surf continues a summer-long trend and the season may finish in the top six for average water temperatures in records dating to 1912, said Jim Eberwine, a retired National Weather Service marine specialist and Absecon\u2019s emergency management chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">But the readings on the land have taken a dramatic turn for the cooler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \"><a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/weather\/philadelphia-weather-temperature-record-storm-forecast-20250725.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/weather\/philadelphia-weather-temperature-record-storm-forecast-20250725.html\">After a blistering July<\/a> and a six-day stretch of 90-plus temperatures in August, forecast highs for the next several days would be about average for the second and third weeks of September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">If the forecasts hold, officially this would be the coolest August in Philadelphia since at least since 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">With north winds importing chilly air, a similar pattern in January and February would have produced quite the cold spell, said Hoeflich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The updated extended outlook posted Thursday <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/predictions\/814day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/predictions\/814day\/\">by the Climate Prediction Center <\/a>has the probabilities favoring below-normal temperatures through Sept. 11 for here and most of the eastern half of the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The precipitation forecast for the next two weeks is basically a coin flip, the climate center says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">No rain is in the weather service forecast through next Thursday, and the dryness may be something to watch, said John Feerick, senior meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The interagency <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?NJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?NJ\">U.S. Drought Monitor survey<\/a> posted Thursday had Cape May County and western areas of Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester Counties in the \u201cabnormally dry\u201d zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">So far this month, only 1.73 inches of rain has fallen, well less than half of normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">But an unscientific survey has found that most people won\u2019t mind if the deficit grows this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No tropical storms. No rip currents, and the water is warm. 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