Winter...What Else?

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Tonight, I have my own Silver Linings Playbook: it may be snowing, but we're missing the bigger storm offshore. If we had a direct hit from that tonight, Jeremy and Chris would accompany me on the set, and the newsies would be in a froth over storm coverage. Instead, we all get a good night's sleep, and the morning commute looks fine (maybe some slush southern end of 495/Rts 3&24). Here's why:

Chilly air will follow tomorrow, and although I can't promise a lot of sun, we'll still do some melting. The weekend is chilly too...and with more sun we'll get more wind. The upper atmosphere remains cold, and when you heat the ground with sun it causes the air to blow. More sun = stronger wind.

Monday's still on my radar for a potential nor'easter. I'm not giving up on this. The jetstream looks right, the cold is in place, but so far the weather maps keep the storm south of us. Could be they sense the block up over Greenland steering it away. Not buying it...yet.

So I had a weather epiphany this morning. After looking at the long range (10 day) outlook and realizing the pattern still wasn't showing signs of breaking, I noticed that the cold certainly was eroding. So, after some thought, I figured this: we may not break the cold/snow by sheer pattern change, but by seasonal change. Simply, the cold will slowly decay by means of longer days and stronger sun. It may not be the quickest way out, but at this point, it's probably the only way.

That's my thinking today at least. We'll see if it holds water (or snow) in a week.

Pete

Storms, Heat, Sea Breezes

Posted by Pete Bouchard

What a day! Breakneck temperature swings, thunder, tornadoes in Western Mass....and we're still in late May!

Summ-ah!

Posted by Pete Bouchard

With the snap of the fingers we were thrown into summer this afternoon. Heat, humidity, A/C and shorts - with a hazy sun to boot. But with the sea breeze knocking back the temperatures (and bringing in a round of downpours this evening), there are changes afoot.

Warming Up and Unsettled

Posted by Chris Lambert

Well, it certainly was a great weekend weather-wise until this afternoon when the temps dropped and light showers moved in from west to east.  Despite the cool down, the theme for this upcoming week is warmer with higher humidity.  It'll also be unsettled at times. 

Pulling The Fade

Posted by Chris Lambert

Our fun in the sun ends this afternoon as morning sunshine fades behind thickening clouds.  As those clouds increase, a few showers break out this afternoon from west to east, with the highest chance for rain late afternoon and this evening.  Most of the showers are light, especially the early afternoon ones, but a heavier shower or two is possible near day's end and early this evening.  Highs reach the mid to upper 60s around noon, then fall back to near 60 mid to late afternoon thanks to scattered showers.  These showers are brought to us by a warm front.