The Cold Gets Colder

Posted by Chris Lambert

With a fresh snow pack, we'll have no trouble keeping the cold air around.  In fact the cold gets colder this week as high pressure to our north refreshes the Canadian air mass in place.  Temps run in the mid 30s the next couple days, then fall back to the 20s for highs by mid-week.

For First Night in Boston, clouds are our friend.  Any clouds we have move in this evening help prevent temperatures from free falling, and that means it's a slow trend down with temps around midnight in Boston at 32.  Factor in the breeze, and it'll feel more like 22 outside.   Yeah, it'll be cool, you'll need to dress warm, but it's a long way away from the arctic air that blasted us the morning of Jan 1st, 2009.  That morning, we hit 6 degrees in Boston and 0 in Worcester. 

Overall, the pattern looks cold, but dry this week with just a few flurries possible by Friday.  Although this week is cold, long range indications are for a warmer pattern over the 2nd week of the New Year.

Have fun tonight everyone!  Stay safe.

Monsoon

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.