Balmy, then...balmy?

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Wow! Knock your socks off warmth across (parts of) the Commonwealth today:

Plymouth  63

Millis          60

Wrentham 60

Waltham    59

Auburn      56

Not anything we haven't seen before in December. (See my blog from last Monday the 3rd.) While this should be the end of the unseasonable warmth for a while, it may not be the last of it for the winter.

I made a big fuss about a pattern change last week. It was supposed to shift us from milder than normal to near normal with more opportunities for snow. Well, that change is coming as advertised, BUT...

...there is some dispute on how much cold will enter the picture. Suffice it to say, it's marginal. And weak....and I don't have a lot of faith that it will be enough to keep the next series of storms as snow.

Sooooo....if we miss out on the next two opportunities (Sun-Mon and next Tuesday), we're looking at a BROWN Christmas. Right now, I'm playing the "show me the money" approach. Unless I start seeing some cold air shooting - and for that matter - staying around here for a while, I'm not budging from my milder-than-normal perch. That means I'm going for rain from Sun-Mon and also next Tuesday. They say that in dry patterns dry begets dry. Well I think that in mild patterns the cold can be temporary.

We shall see.

Pete

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.

Strong Finish

Posted by Chris Lambert

An overall cooler day, but also a great end to the workweek as highs neared 70, low humidity continued and plenty of sunshine dominated the skies.  Now all we need is this to continue through the weekend right?