Stormin' Across The Country

Posted by Pete Bouchard

With the amount of hype circulating around this storm in the Midwest, you'd think we were tracking another asteroid about to impact Earth.

Let's ease up on the gas. Sure, this is a strong storm, but by now, we should be all seasoned veterans with snow, wind AND winter.

So what's the scoop?

• Storm start-up still looks like Saturday afternoon. We'll still be able to get around and the amounts will be light through midnight - in fact, we may even mix  from Boston to the South Shore. (Cape sees rain.)
• After midnight, the storm will get a little meatier. Snow intensity will increase into Sunday morning.
• Heavy snow through Sunday morning.
• Tapering to flurries by mid afternoon on Sunday

There is a lot of water being thrown around in the atmosphere, and with marginally cold temps, this will result in a heavy, wet snow in many spots. Even in Worcester county, it will make for good snowballs and snowpeople. On the South Shore, it will cake to the trees and power lines - so there might be more power outages.

Coastal flooding looks to fall in the minor to moderate category. This isn't a humongous storm, so the fetch of water along the coast (attributed to the east/northeast wind) won't be tremendous. Nonetheless, we're watching the Sunday morning high tide around 10am for splashover and inundated shore roads.

We'll be here every step of the way.

Stay with 7Weather.

Pete

Back and Forth

Posted by Chris Lambert

Quite a few clouds in the sky at times this afternoon, but the atmosphere lacked ample moisture to produce showers, so we made out just fine with temps near 70.  Even the coast made it well into the 60s before the onshore wind knocked temps back.

Pretty Good Weekend Overall

Posted by Chris Lambert

Sure, it's a cool start with many of the suburbs down into the upper 30s and lower 40s, but we'll warm up quickly through the day as that sun helps us out.

Strong Finish

Posted by Chris Lambert

An overall cooler day, but also a great end to the workweek as highs neared 70, low humidity continued and plenty of sunshine dominated the skies.  Now all we need is this to continue through the weekend right?

Still Good

Posted by Chris Lambert

How about yesterday?  The 82 in Boston matched the warmest temp we've had since September 13th.  Of course, with a wind gusting past 30mph and relative humidity near 18%, it certainly didn't feel oppressive.