Weekly Significant Weather Outlook
Heavy rain over the latter part of the weekend caused minor flooding along a portion of the Wood River in southwest RI. The river will continue to gradually subside to fall within its banks today.
Otherwise, there is no hazardous weather to report presently or anticipated this week. A building upper-level ridge will bring warmer than average temperatures to southern New England for the middle to latter part of the workweek. A couple of progressive upper-level troughs will act to flatten this upper ridge late this workweek into the weekend and bring at least slightly cooler temperatures. Although most of the week is expected to feature dry and tranquil weather, an upper trough and weak surface cold front may trigger at least some scattered showers to our region late Thursday or Thursday night. A second upper-level trough may bring another round of showers to southern New England Saturday night into Sunday, although much uncertainty remains in the details.
Tropics: The vertical wind shear induced by the El Nino phenomenon continues to suppress tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic Basin. There is a disturbance quite far east southeast of Bermuda that may move outside of the strong wind shear in a few days and possibly have an opportunity for some development later this week.
The eastern and central Pacific have been more active, but there are currently no tropical systems posing a threat to any land areas.
Next Message
Since hazardous weather for southern New England looks unlikely this week and any tropical cyclone development in the Atlantic Basin is likely to be slow at best, the next message will probably be the significant weather outlook scheduled for Monday September 21 (anniversary of the devastating 1938 Hurricane).
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Message issued September 14, 2026 by:
Bob Thompson
Retired National Weather Service Meteorologist
