Subtracting Today, Adding This Weekend
Posted by Chris Lambert
Temps today start off below freezing, and that means Thursday's snowmelt refroze overnight, slickening the sidewalks and driveways this morning with black ice. Give that sun a couple hours to work, and temps jump above freezing, the ice thaws out and snow resumes it's subtracting mode. With high temps near 50 this afternoon, shrinking snow piles is the theme of the day.
Just because temperatures near 50 today, doesn't mean it won't snow soon. This is New England, just wait a day, you know Mother Nature changes her mind quite often and quite abruptly.
Change start working in tonight as a weak cold front slides in. Clouds increase, and perhaps a bit of snow and rain breaks out after midnight. I wouldn't surprised to see minor accumulations north and west of Route 128 early Saturday morning. Then some breaks of dry weather enter from Saturday morning, into the early afternoon. After that, more rain and snow redevelop Saturday afternoon. At first, it's mainly rain inside 495, but as winds turn north, and sunset approaches, temps cool, and rain turns to snow. By Saturday night, we're tracking an ocean storm just far enough offshore to send the brunt of the storm out to sea, but close enough to produce some steady snow overnight, into early Sunday morning. If this sounds like a complicated forecast, that's because it is. Snowfall accumulation is tough to pin down, but I'd plan on several inches of snow by Sunday morning, and that'll be enough to get those shovels and plows back out.
Cold air rushes in Sunday afternoon, but the core of the cold is short-lived and that means next week looks fantastic for skiing on school vacation week!
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.