Plan something outdoors as the day in the Philadelphia region is looking dry and considerably less humid than Thursday, making for an ideal summer day to spend time outside.  Changes are coming for the weekend as your NEXT Weather team is now tracking the possibility of pop-up showers and storms both Saturday and Sunday.

Highs will climb into the low 90s today, but with the humidity, it will feel more like the upper 90s to around 100º at times. Plan on showers and storms to fire up this afternoon. Some storms could be strong with heavy rain and gusty wind. Rain should fizzle out this evening.

Clouds will steadily increase throughout the day along with humidity. Along with winds shifting to the south, we’ll notice a boost in temperatures, pushing highs into the upper 70s to around 80.

The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has almost the entire region under a Marginal Risk for storms (Level 1 of 5). “An isolated storm may be strong to severe,” said Ritz. “Wind is the primary threat with any severe storm. Locally heavy rainfall is possible.” Storm Center 7 will continue to update this story.

The total rainfall Saturday shows you spotty quarter inch to half inch amounts, mostly in the southern half of Michigan. There certainly could be small areas up to one inch of rain, but that rain would still happen in just an hour or two. Also notice some areas of northern Michigan are projected to not get any rain at all.

The pattern remains unsettled with a stalled front nearby and a humid, unstable air mass in place this afternoon. This will ignite more soaking showers and storms. The storms will be more numerous today and will be on the stronger side. The Storm Prediction Center has placed a good portion of our area under a Slight Risk of severe weather today.

This amount of rain would have been welcomed spread over six months,” she said. “But we’ve gotten it in two months."

Heavy rain and storms bring a flooding threat to the southern half of the state tonight with more storms in the 7 day forecast.

The good news is a marked decrease in intensity of the thunderstorms in the past two hours. As of 7:30 p.m. there is only one isolated severe thunderstorm warning in effect over the entire Great Lakes region. The National Weather Service has watched this decline and cancelled the severe thunderstorm watch in effect for this evening.

Parts of Somerset and Middlesex experienced severe flooding during Monday’s storms, necessitating dozens of water rescues in several towns. High temperatures on Wednesday will climb into the upper 80s to low 90s with a heat index in the low to mid 90s.