Check out the cold front lightning strikes, and the calm behind it.

I just took a look at the current lightning strikes and how perfect of a curved line it forms from Idaho down through Louisiana and up again along the Atlantic coast. It makes sense when you also look at the current surface map. Here's the side-by-side of the two of them:

Also look how calm it is behind the front. The metro area, the northeast, and much of the surrounding regions will get a beautiful and sunny weekend behind this front with cooler temperatures, only reaching into the low-mid 70's for the metro area. It's a nice break from the AC weather we had this week where we reached into the mid-upper 90's if you can believe it, and for September none-the-less! On the 11th it was 96° in the heart of NYC only a few degrees shy of the record, 88° on Long Island tying the record there, and in the upper 80's or the lower 90's in much of New England which either tied or broke records in many counties.

So we'll welcome the cooler weather for this weekend with open arms. Enjoy it everyone.

-Mike Merin