Balmy, then...balmy?
Posted by Pete Bouchard
Wow! Knock your socks off warmth across (parts of) the Commonwealth today:
Plymouth 63
Millis 60
Wrentham 60
Waltham 59
Auburn 56
Not anything we haven't seen before in December. (See my blog from last Monday the 3rd.) While this should be the end of the unseasonable warmth for a while, it may not be the last of it for the winter.
I made a big fuss about a pattern change last week. It was supposed to shift us from milder than normal to near normal with more opportunities for snow. Well, that change is coming as advertised, BUT...
...there is some dispute on how much cold will enter the picture. Suffice it to say, it's marginal. And weak....and I don't have a lot of faith that it will be enough to keep the next series of storms as snow.
Sooooo....if we miss out on the next two opportunities (Sun-Mon and next Tuesday), we're looking at a BROWN Christmas. Right now, I'm playing the "show me the money" approach. Unless I start seeing some cold air shooting - and for that matter - staying around here for a while, I'm not budging from my milder-than-normal perch. That means I'm going for rain from Sun-Mon and also next Tuesday. They say that in dry patterns dry begets dry. Well I think that in mild patterns the cold can be temporary.
We shall see.
Pete
Like A Waterfall
Posted by Pete Bouchard
If you were caught in those 'cloudbursts' today, you had more than you could handle in the rain department. Torrents fell in a short amount of time - what we deem 'flash flooding' in the weather biz. Since it happens suddenly, the National Weather Service has adopted the acronym TADD:
Thunderous Start to Workweek
Posted by Pete Bouchard
Heat and a bit of humidity fed a strong - and sometimes severe - line of thunderstorms today. By the time the dinner hour rolled around (6pm-ish), the storms had consolidated into a line. Everyone got a drink of water and a big drop in temperatures - some falling nearly 20 degrees in minutes!
We'll Take Average
Posted by Chris Lambert
Well, we had a lot of clouds this afternoon, but at least not a lot of rain. Sure a few showers were out there, scattered about, but hopefully they didn't ruin any plans you had with dad. Temps made it into the mid to upper 70s, which is close to the average for this time of year. In fact, the whole 7-day forecast is within 5 degrees of average each and every day. That means lots of upper 70s and lower 80s on the board. Not bad being average this time of year, huh?
Happy Father's Day
Posted by Chris Lambert
Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there, and to my dad as well. So what's on tap for the day? Golf, grilling, just hanging out? Whatever it is, all and all, it's still a pretty good day for dad weather-wise. I wish I could say the Father's Day forecast exactly repeats Saturday, but we do have a few late afternoon showers to track.