Back On Track

Posted by Chris Lambert

After a cool, rainy pattern derailed our nice Spring weather for several days, it seems like Mother Nature has us back on track for the next several days. 

Although not picture perfect with mostly cloudy skies at times across the southern half of Worcester County, Rhode Island and parts of Buzzards Bay and Bristol County, at least it's dry.  Best chance of a shower of sprinkle is across western Mass and western CT.  With a nice NW breeze and low humidity, it'll be a comfortable afternoon as temps flirt with 80.  The most sun glares down north of Boston, up through southern Maine.  In the Boston area, South Shore beaches and Metrowest, we'll call it a mix of clouds and sun.   It takes a while for the seabreeze to kick in, but it will, and that drops temps from near 80 in the city around 4PM to the 66-70 range by sunset. Great weather for the Sox game!

Sunday is a beauty with mostly sunny skies and temps running in the low 80s inland.  Highs are capped in the low to mid 70s coast, even falling back into the upper 60s at the beaches with an onshore breeze the is steady in the afternoon.  Overall, the weather cooperates for just about anything you have planed.

Monday... Another good looking day with temps near 80, cooler Cape.

Tuesday is in the lower 80s with higher humidity and increasing afternoon clouds.  Those clouds foreshadow an approaching front that'll bring us scattered downpours and rumbles of thunder on Wednesday.  The wet pattern won't hold on too long, but Thursday seems to be a bit cool and unsettle still.  Right now, Friday is the transition day into improving weather, and if the trend sticks, perhaps nice next weekend too?

Before I get too far ahead of myself, let's enjoy this weekend!

Come On Ride The Train

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Heavy rain is on the move! All afternoon long it was stalled over Western Massachusetts and Connecticut. Heavy pulses of rain traveled over the same towns and cities - a process meteorologists call "training" - resulting in flash flooding in some counties to our west.

Unsettling

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

Another day where we have cool, ocean air battling warmer land air leading to a clash of air. That means clouds, drizzle, fog, humidity (frizzy hair) for much of the day. It's not a washout though. The highest chance of rain is this morning--until 9:30am and then later this afternoon (after 3pm). In between, you will see a lot of clouds but also some sunshine at times. Even limited sun will be able to shove temps well into the 70s. This warm & humid air is what will lead to another round of showers & t-storms later today. Some of the storms will be intense. Like the past two days the strongest storms will be in western New England. Only isolated showers/ thunderstorms are expected along the coastline later today. Sox game will have the risk of some showers but they should be able to play that game. Welcome back Tito!

Saved by The Sea Breeze

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Although my forecast was busted today, there was one good thing that came out of it.

Stability.

That gray overcast that hung over the eastern half of the Commonwealth provided a stablizing influence to our atmosphere. The cool air blowing in from the ocean kept the temperatures in the upper 50s and low 60s all the way back to Metrowest. While that makes for lousy short-and-t-shirt weather, it is poison to thunderstorms.

Wild & Wacky

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

Wild temperatures yesterday---from the 80s down into the low 60s in just an hour AND some heavy duty thunderstorms. The reason was a cool front that dropped in from Maine. That front is in western New England this morning and it's a chameleon as it will become a warm front and try to warm things back up during the day.