Short Respite

Posted by Pete Bouchard

With all that wind out there, you'd think there would be a train load of cold air coming in tonight.

*crickets chirping*

Apparently, all that wind was for naught. Certainly, the temps did cool off, but the serious cold from last week...remains in the record books (for the record, it was cold enough for a record low temperature at Blue Hill).

Anyway, we have a two day respite in the weather pattern. Some nice, sunny, mild days ahead. The only caveat will be along the coast with the southeast breeze. Temps will hover NEAR 60 with a cool breeze off the water. With plenty of sun, however, the cool air will be offset...until late in the afternoon when the sun goes down.

Long range, we're eying a storm for the Friday/Saturday timeframe. Some wind, some rain...and possibly some downpours. That's not yet written in stone, however. The heavy rain is still questionable only because we're not certain we will tap into the plume of tropical moisture sitting offshore. If we keep it away, we'll have run-of-the-mill rain. If we bring it in, 1-2 inches of water is not out of the question.

More later.

Pete

Like A Waterfall

Posted by Pete Bouchard

If you were caught in those 'cloudbursts' today, you had more than you could handle in the rain department. Torrents fell in a short amount of time - what we deem 'flash flooding' in the weather biz. Since it happens suddenly, the National Weather Service has adopted the acronym TADD:

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.