A Simple Message

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

Once upon a time in my college courses, I was taught to develop a weather message to deliver to the people. Some days that message is screaming--I.E...major snowstorm....record heat and other times (like tonight) it can be a challenge as the weather maps are taking a snooze.

Looking into the upcoming week, it's a quiet week with no big (or small) storms on the way. Monday is a carbon copy of today with a mix of sun & clouds. Temperatures will be seasonal--morning readings in the 40s and afternoon highs in the low to mid 60s. The only issue I see this week is that a warm front will try to move through New England late Tuesday-Wednesday. The fun warmth never makes it but the result will be a lot of clouds and even a few sprinkles late in the day Tuesday and again early Wednesday morning.  In fact, in this battle of warm versus cool I think the cool actually wins by Wednesday with many towns stuck in the 50s for afternoon highs. After this failed warm-up attempt, it's back to a mix of sun & clouds by late week.

It should be noted that the tropics are trying to get their act together. A tropical system is likely to form near Hispaniola by midweek and it's quite likely a tropical storm (to be named Sandy) will move into the Bahamas by next weekend. After that, there are some signs this tropical system will work along the east coast---very unusual but something that will have to be watched by late next weekend.
 

~JR

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.

Back and Forth

Posted by Chris Lambert

Quite a few clouds in the sky at times this afternoon, but the atmosphere lacked ample moisture to produce showers, so we made out just fine with temps near 70.  Even the coast made it well into the 60s before the onshore wind knocked temps back.

Pretty Good Weekend Overall

Posted by Chris Lambert

Sure, it's a cool start with many of the suburbs down into the upper 30s and lower 40s, but we'll warm up quickly through the day as that sun helps us out.