Massive Downpours

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Heavy-handed storms pounded Southeast Mass. this afternoon with many spots from Fall River to Chatham picking up 2-3 inches of rain in a matter of an hour! It all came around high tide in Fall River, so without a place for the water to go, it flooded roads, parking lots and many basements.

Those downpours fed off soupy, moisture-laden air that was hovering over the Commonwealth all through the day. As the storms pass off Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard this evening, we're changing out the airmass and lowering the humidity.

Tomorrow won't be refreshing or cool, but the air will seem a little thinner than today. Storms will stay away too, and with highs near 80, summer will seem to return for a day...

..or two. Friday is also warm and sticky, with an outside chance 40% of a storm.

With Hurricane Leslie lurking offshore, the weekend is turning wetter. It's not Leslie herself who will hit us with water, but the fact that as she lollygags offshore she will back up weather systems in the Northeast. That means the front that would normally swing through late Saturday stalls over us on Sunday and washes out the day. Here's the catch though: if Leslie gets a move on, Sunday could dry out in the afternoon.

In the meantime, we'll just wait for her next chess move.

Pete

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?

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.