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FXUS61 KGYX 270249
AFDGYX

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Gray ME
1049 PM EDT Thu Jun 26 2025

.SYNOPSIS...
A front will bring chances for light showers through this
evening before high pressure pushes back in from the north
tonight. A warm front will lift northeast towards New England
Friday bringing increasing chances for showers Friday afternoon
into Friday night. Low pressure crosses Saturday bring periods
of rain. Weak high pressure builds in Sunday and Monday for
mostly dry weather with increasing temperatures. Temperatures
and humidity continue to rise Tuesday ahead of a cold front 
that will bring thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon into Tuesday 
night. Humidity will abate behind the front Wednesday.

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.NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM FRIDAY MORNING/...
1045 PM Update...No changes to the overnight forecast. Clearing
continues as expected. Otherwise, patchy fog is possible as many
areas radiate down to somewhat chilly overnight lows.

650 PM Update...Ridge axis continues to build in from the
northwest this evening allowing for dry weather and decreasing
clouds. It should be a chilly night where we radiate. In
addition, fog will be possible in those areas also.

Previously...

Light radar returns have been pushing west to east across the 
forecast area today, finally managing to overcome low level dry 
air. Echos have been aplenty for much of the morning and 
afternoon, but just over the last hour or two made it to 
surface observing stations. Most observations upstream have been
very light, with some only noting a trace or a hundredth of an 
inch. Present radar trends support this onset of light showers 
across far southern ME and much of NH over the next few hours. 

High pressure to the north tonight will keep dry air present. 
This will tend to limit duration of showers into this evening, 
as well as keep cloud ceilings elevated. Thinning cloud cast 
should be observed across much of southern ME tonight, and this 
may promote some brief valley fog into the Kennebec Valley. Of 
more uncertainty is if the same develops towards the CT Valley. 
Clouds may be more dense here limiting the retreat of 
temperatures with otherwise dry conditions.

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.SHORT TERM /6 AM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY/...
Friday begins eerily similar to Thursday with mostly sunny skies
across the east, but increasing cloudiness into the afternoon.
High temperatures rise near Thursday's highs, but the warmer
temps look to be more concentrated towards central ME. This is
primarily due to the presence of thicker clouds in the AM for 
much of southern NH.

Winds become onshore Friday, with moisture again saturating top
down for increasing shower chances into the afternoon. Don't
anticipate more steady rainfall until Friday evening.

High pressure will have moved over the Gulf of ME Friday
evening, its return flow aiding in moisture advection into New
England. Isentropic lift will be underway to the west, and this
shifts east as low pressure exits the Great Lakes into Ontario.
HREF and NBM QPF has nosed north, with the western ME mountains
and far northern NH first receiving the steady rain. The
translation eastward along this region of lift will tend to
focus greatest precip amounts along a specific axis. This has
wavered by guidance and over time, as well as amounts. Noting
that jet coupling isn't as intense and a large spread through
the IQR of the NBM lowers confidence in 2"+ amounts. By Saturday
morning, a quarter inch of rainfall is possible for much of the
CWA, with amounts nearing a half to three quarters of an inch in
the mountains.

A wave of low pressure will track from Lake Ontario to the Gulf of 
Maine Saturday bringing periods of rain. A weak area of high 
pressure slides across northern New England late Sunday through 
Monday bringing mostly fair weather with an upward trend in 
temperatures. Low pressure will track into the St Lawrence Valley 
Tuesday with heat and humidity building across the Northeast. A cold 
front will cross the region Tuesday afternoon and evening bringing 
chances for thunderstorms. Somewhat drier air moves in behind the 
front while troughing lingers over the Northeast into the second 
half of next week. 

The 12Z model suite is in good agreement that there will be high 
chances for rain Saturday while subtle north to south differences in 
the track of the low is producing a spread in rainfall amounts and 
temperatures. Mesoscale models are favoring a low track near 
overhead that would limit the forecast area's residence time within 
the warm sector resulting in limited surface based instability and 
relative cool temperatures in the 60s. Event total QPF forecast is 
generally 0.5 to 1.5 inches with higher amounts possible in the 
mountains. Some elevated instability combined with high PWATs and 
deep warm cloud depths will bring potential for localized higher 
amounts in any convection that can materialize. However, 6 hour FFG 
is generally above 3 inches, which leads to a low risk for flood 
concerns with this event.

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.LONG TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY/...
Long term update...01z NBM has been incorporated into the long
term forecast. Improvement continues to be foreseen Saturday
night and Sunday as low pressure moves away. Warmer weather is
then expected with chances for showers and thunderstorms
centered around Tuesday and Thursday.

Previously...

Chances for rain will diminish late Saturday into
Sunday morning as the wave of low pressure moves offshore. 
Mostly fair weather is likely across much of the area by Sunday 
afternoon with highs climbing into the 70s. High pressure slides
overhead Sunday night and offshore Monday. This will bring fair
weather with temperatures into the 80s for highs. Humidity will
also start to increase and will peak on Tuesday when dewpoints 
will make a run into the upper 60s to low 70s. These high 
dewpoints combined with surface heating will likely yield ample 
CAPE across the forecast area for thunderstorms that will become
likely Tuesday afternoon as a cold front approaches. Latest 
Machine Learning guidance out of CSU is showing a decent signal 
for strong to severe storms with this cold front. This seems 
reasonable with global models suggesting a frontal passage near 
and just after peak heating and modest height falls aloft. 
Temperatures look to remain seasonably warm into the middle of 
next week while dewpoints drop in the wake of the front. 
Cyclonic flow aloft will linger keeping some chances for showers
in the forecast Wednesday and Thursday.

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.AVIATION /03Z FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/...
Short Term...VFR expected for much of this evening and tonight.
Some guidance is bringing lowered ceiling/vis to points near
river valleys late tonight, and have included a brief mention of
vicinity fog here. For now, confidence in this occuring is low
due to existing cloud cover, but some may begin to thin later
tonight. VFR continues Friday, but clouds thicken and lower
overnight. Restrictions to MVFR and then IFR are likely first
across southern NH terminals and moving northward.

Long Term...Low pressure crossing the area Saturday will likely keep 
cigs near MVFR to IFR thresholds with periods of rain. Restrictions 
may linger through Saturday night before drier air moves in Sunday. 
VFR likely prevails Sunday into Tuesday. A cold front will bring 
chances for thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon.

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.MARINE...
Short Term...Conditions below SCA are expected. High pressure
moves north of the waters tonight before settling over the Gulf
of Maine Friday. This will promote onshore flow ahead of low
pressure moving into Ontario Friday night. 

Long Term...Low pressure approaches from the west Saturday and moves 
through the waters Saturday night. This will bring persistent 
onshore winds with gusts around 20 kts and seas climbing to 5-6 feet 
Saturday night into Sunday. High pressure slides over the waters 
Sunday night and Monday. South to southwest flow increases Tuesday 
ahead of a cold front.

&&

.GYX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
ME...None.
NH...None.
MARINE...None.

&&

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SYNOPSIS...
NEAR TERM...Cornwell/Ekster
SHORT TERM...Cornwell
LONG TERM...Schroeter
AVIATION...
MARINE...