Memory #5 of 7

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It's so hard to narrow down memories from my years here at Channel 7, but coming in as memory #5 has got to be the Health Expo. Storm coverage is exhausting, but the Health Expo was even more so! Between doing weather hits through the morning shows and hanging out until 5pm each evening, by the end you were totally beyond exhausted. It was the best event because it was our chance to meet so many of you folks. I got the pleasure of showing so many people how to be a meteorologist in front of the green screen. ("And the 7 day forecast looks eeeeven better!") I met Slater from Saved by the Bell, Tedy Bruschi signed a picture for my brother who's his biggest fan, I sat next to Anne Allred as someone had her autograph his arm, then came back with it tattooed onto his arm the next day, I got to do underwater live shots in a scuba tank, the list goes on and on. I remember coming home after the Expo one year and saw something weird in my back yard. I look outside and there's a strange tree planted in the ground. My dad drove up for NJ, not realizing how busy I'd be and how I wouldn't get to see him, planted a fig tree in my garden, then drove back to NJ! That's the story of why I have a fig tree. Ironically, my fiance's last name means "fig tree" in Italian. It's all meant to be...

Anyway, back to the weather at hand. High pressure is back in place and we're talking about sunshine all day today through next Monday. It's going to fall-like, crisp, and dry today with highs in the mid 70s. Tomorrow morning is going to be rather chilly in the 40s and 50s, but a warm sunshine and a west wind will get us back into the mid 80s Thursday afternoon. It's downright hot on Friday with highs in the 90s! It'll be hot and dry and breezy too, so fire weather could be an issue Friday.

The weekend will be sunny and just about perfect near 80°. The very distant remnants of Isaac could bring us rain on Tuesday. Speaking of Isaac, it's holding as a Category 1 hurricane across southeastern Louisiana. It's pretty much stationary right now, so the torrential rains, damaging winds, and storm surge will remain in place. Eventually the storm will start moving and should weaken tonight. Several inches of rain are expected throughout the Midwest in the coming days.

~Dylan

Bam! Pow!

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

Bam. Pow! Those were some nasty storms last evening with some towns in metrowest & the city itself blasted with locally heavy rain, hail, lightning and strong wind gusts. A cool front is the culprit and that front will linger across the region again today. That means another round of some scattered showers & t-storms likely.

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!

Rear-view Mirror

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

As we exit our recent soggy pattern we do so with one more weather system capable of producing scattered showers & t-storms. This cool front is a slow mover (aren't we all on Monday mornings?!) up in northern New England right now. This slow moving front will settle into our part of the world very late this afternoon bringing a chance of some scattered t-storms between 4-pm. Until then you have a great day with mostly sunny skies along with temperatures in the low 80s. For some, a bit on the humid side for much of the day.

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?