Eyes to The Skies

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Whew. The asteroid is moving away, the meteors have stopped falling and we're realizing how close to came to sudden impact. A mere 17,000 miles separated us from this chunk of space rock. Some astronomers are quietly speculating (now that the threat for public panic has passed) that those meteors in Russia this morning MAY have once been a part of the asteroid at one time. Perhaps, they say, in its last approach to Earth, the gravitational pull caused some fragments to break off the asteroid and put them on a collision course with Earth. Sounds plausible...I mean, you really think it was coincidence???

Now back to ground level. Nice one today, eh? Sun boosted us to 50 and 51 in some spots! But reality is setting in for the weekend. Colder temperatures and a foray into the snow...again.

Before you get in a huff, remember what the February sun has done to the snowpack thus far. We managed to obliterate well over half of our snow in less than a week.

Now back to the timing on this storm:

• Light snow/mix/light rain will pester us from daybreak to early afternoon tomorrow. Roads will be wet, and accumulations will be light.
• We'll have a pause late tomorrow afternoon before the snow cranks up late tomorrow evening and into the night. This is where we get 90% of our accumulation.
• Snow will still be around on Sunday morning, but it'll be light and wind-blown.
• Event ends mid Sunday AM.
• Highest amounts will be on Cape Cod, where ocean-effect (similar to Lake Effect) will contribute to the accumulations.
• Temps plummet overnight on Saturday into the low 20s & only recover to the mid 20s Sunday. Gusty winds on Sunday will give us wind chills in the single digits!

After this, things will settle down for the short term, but we're still in an active pattern, so I can't exactly say this is the finish line in terms of snow.

Make it a good weekend!

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.