It’s a cool and windy week ahead

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SHORT-TERM FORECAST

TODAY: Partly sunny. Fresh. High: 43.

TONIGHT: Becoming cloudy. Bottom: 29.

TOMORROW: Partly sunny. A little breezy. High: 41.

TUESDAY: Cloudy morning. Snow dust at noon and rain. High: 39.

SUMMARY OF FORECAST

Sometimes the sky will be cloudy today, but many of us will see more sunny skies than cloudier skies.

It will be windy and cool with highs in the low 40s.

The winds stop at sunset (5:01 pm) and the wind remains light all night.

The sky will turn cloudy tonight as a piece of energy passes through us.

Then Monday, we are partially sunny. Although it is less windy than today, you will still notice a breeze every now and then on Monday.

All week it’s cold and windy. Highs are in the 30s all week starting Tuesday.

Tuesday begins with sunny weather, but it is cloudy in the afternoon as a cold front approaches.

The weak cold front will give us some snow showers in the evening. A spot or two in the Poconos will get a quick sprinkle. The rest of us don’t see flakes building up on the floor.

Wednesday will be our sunniest day of the week.

Take advantage of the clear skies and go see Uranus on Wednesday evening.

Uranus will be between Mars and the crescent moon. The moon will be lower in the sky. Next, look for the brightest object just above the moon higher up – it’s Mars. Mars has a red tint when you see it through binoculars.

Full screen viewer image.png — The view through binoculars. Credit: NASA.

The brightest object near Mars is Uranus. It will be a little below and a little to the left of Mars. It will be much smaller than Mars, which is why you want the binoculars to see it well. If you have binoculars, you will see a blue tint.

Uranus has a blue tint. Credit: Marty McGuire.

Late at night, the sky becomes cloudy and we are cloudy Thursday morning and noon. The clouds come from another cold front crossing.

This front has a little more energy than Tuesday’s front. So we’ll see a quick dusting of snow in places in the Lehigh Valley, Schuylkill and Berks counties, and the Poconos around lunchtime. Philly and the suburbs of Philly will just see rain. Then we will see the sun return to the sky in the late afternoon.