Which will almost certainly become the The driest month in Philadelphia weather history is likely to peak on Halloween with record-breaking heat.

Forecasters predict temperatures will approach the Oct. 31 record high of 82, reached in 1946.

That he beats the record of the official weather station of Philadelphia International Airport can get down to a few directional degrees of wind, said Alex Staarmann, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Office in Mount Holly.

A breeze coming off the Delaware River, where the water temperature Wednesday was around 60 degrees, could knock a degree or two off the official maximum. Staarmann said that would be “the only limiting factor.” If the winds escape the river, he said, a record could be at stake.

But all niceties aside, the ’80s are almost scary for Halloween. And it can feel like all the relentless sunshine and dryness of a historic month has caused the air to ripen to May-like temperatures, at a time when we might expect to see frosted wreaths on pumpkins.

Trick-or-treat forecasts for the Philadelphia area

In recent days, the air has cooled quickly as the sun begins to set. However, that won’t be the case on Thursday, forecasters say, with winds warming up from the southwest.

The weather service has temperatures in Philadelphia remaining at 75 or better until 7 p.m. and above 70 until 10 p.m., for the after-hours crowd.

Southwest winds will intensify a bit during the day, said Dave Dombek, senior meteorologist at AccuWeather Inc., but probably not enough to affect witch flight conditions. Stronger breezes are expected to persist into late Thursday night as a front approaches.

As the weather service said in its afternoon discussion: “No tricks, but treats this Halloween.” But he also noted, “We could use the rain.” »

New Jersey monitors drought in fact, a step Pennsylvania did not take Wednesday.

When is the next chance of rain in Philadelphia?

The European forecast model shows the aforementioned front spreading raindrops over the region early Friday morning, Dombek said.

But by then, October will have ended without measurable rain in Philadelphia for the first time since record keeping began in 1872.

Additionally, even if raindrops fall, there is no guarantee that they will land in the official rain gauge.

Dombek said this frontal passage would more likely follow the recent “wash, rinse, repeat” sequence of dry front, cool down and warm up.

Although it is difficult to “wash” and “rinse” without water.