Meltdown

Posted by Pete Bouchard

The slow melt continues, but with a semi-mild (well, at least above freezing in some spots) night and a VERY mild day tomorrow, we'll really put a dent in that snowpack. Here we are, not even a week away from the blizzard, and the remaining snow may dwindle to mere piles by Saturday morning!

But hang on. Old Man Winter's trying to conjuring up another snowy brew for the weekend. This is the storm we feared may form earlier in the week. We've been playing cat and mouse with it all along, but the threat remained low until this morning. It was then that the weather maps jumped on a snowy solution and the flags went up.

But hang on. The sentence doesn't fit the crime. The pattern still would favor a storm far offshore, not one close to New England. The only thing that may give us some small accumulation is a little whip of snow on the western side of the storm. I've been in this business long enough to know that while you CAN get burned on a flare-up of snow, it's still rare and uncommon in situations like this.

So it's with much trepidation that I put numbers on this map. Nonetheless, I'm not one to talk snow and hide my thoughts on accumulation.

So there you have it. These numbers are likely to go down as the picture becomes clearer.

In any event, we're certain on the warm-up tomorrow and the cold to follow on Sunday and Monday. This isn't just any chill, I'm seeing chill-to-the-bone kind of cold to finish the weekend. Highs will struggle to make freezing both days, and with a wind it will feel like teens and 20s.

A not-so-subtle reminder that it is still winter.

Pete

Come On Ride The Train

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Heavy rain is on the move! All afternoon long it was stalled over Western Massachusetts and Connecticut. Heavy pulses of rain traveled over the same towns and cities - a process meteorologists call "training" - resulting in flash flooding in some counties to our west.

Unsettling

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

Another day where we have cool, ocean air battling warmer land air leading to a clash of air. That means clouds, drizzle, fog, humidity (frizzy hair) for much of the day. It's not a washout though. The highest chance of rain is this morning--until 9:30am and then later this afternoon (after 3pm). In between, you will see a lot of clouds but also some sunshine at times. Even limited sun will be able to shove temps well into the 70s. This warm & humid air is what will lead to another round of showers & t-storms later today. Some of the storms will be intense. Like the past two days the strongest storms will be in western New England. Only isolated showers/ thunderstorms are expected along the coastline later today. Sox game will have the risk of some showers but they should be able to play that game. Welcome back Tito!

Saved by The Sea Breeze

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Although my forecast was busted today, there was one good thing that came out of it.

Stability.

That gray overcast that hung over the eastern half of the Commonwealth provided a stablizing influence to our atmosphere. The cool air blowing in from the ocean kept the temperatures in the upper 50s and low 60s all the way back to Metrowest. While that makes for lousy short-and-t-shirt weather, it is poison to thunderstorms.

Wild & Wacky

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

Wild temperatures yesterday---from the 80s down into the low 60s in just an hour AND some heavy duty thunderstorms. The reason was a cool front that dropped in from Maine. That front is in western New England this morning and it's a chameleon as it will become a warm front and try to warm things back up during the day.