First Frost or Freeze Possible in Parts of Northeast Friday Morning

The Labor Day holiday is behind us. Kids are back in school. Football is back.

It seems only appropriate that a plunge of cool air also accompanies this shift in mindset toward fall, even if summer is still officially with us for a little more than two weeks.

A cold front has dropped out of eastern Canada into the Northeast. With high pressure centered over Pennsylvania, clear skies and light winds will send temperatures plummeting Friday morning.

Lows in the 30s are possible away from the coast in Maine and New Hampshire, including Bangor, Caribou, and Concord.  

Temperatures in the 30s are also a possible over much of Vermont, parts of western Massachusetts, far northwest Connecticut, much of Upstate, central and western New York, and far northern Pennsylvania.

Don't be surprised to see the first frost of the season in some of these locations.

Frost and freeze alerts have been issued for parts of the region from northern and western New England to portions of New York and a small part of northwest Pennsylvania.

A few locations, including Burlington, Vt., Binghamton, N.Y. and Caribou, Maine, will even flirt with daily record low temperatures for September 6.

Get those warm jackets out for the bus stop! You may need also a light jacket in the afternoon in parts of the Northeast.

Friday, highs may only manage the low 70s in New York and Philadelphia, with 60s the rule over much of eastern New England.

This weekend, as the center of the high shifts offshore and a new cold front approaches, temperatures will warm a bit, particularly from New York City to Pittsburgh southward, where highs will top out in the upper 70s or low 80s each day.

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