Rainy, Cooler Weather Wednesday Unlikely to Bring Allergy Relief

There will be some rain Wednesday, but meteorologists say it’s unlikely to bring much help to allergy suffers.

“You are looking at pretty dry weather for the most part,” said Kyle Struckmann, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Sterling, Va. “The winds will be more north westerly, which can help somewhat but it won’t change a whole lot.”

The forecast calls for a 20 percent chance of rain and mostly cloudy skies with a high near 54 degrees, slightly below the recent temperatures in the high 50s and 60s.

“It will be a bit cooler then how it’s been and still very breezy,” Struckmann said. “Some wind gusts will be up to 25 miles per hour.”

The cooler weather, however, is expected to ebb the threat of brushfires. On Monday and Tuesday, the weather service had issued a “red flag warning,” which means that a combination of strong winds, low humidity and warm temperatures are favorable for an “explosive fire growth potential.”

The threat of wildfires Monday and Tuesday stretched as far north as New England, and firefighters on Long Island and in Connecticut are still battling significant brush fires.

“Mostly because of the cooler temperatures, the humidity will be higher which means less of a threat as far as fires go,” Struckmann said.

Don’t get too comfortable with the low 50s yet, temperatures will rise in the next few days with the forecast calling for temperatures in the high 70s and low 80s this weekend.