Stormin' Across The Country

Posted by Pete Bouchard

With the amount of hype circulating around this storm in the Midwest, you'd think we were tracking another asteroid about to impact Earth.

Let's ease up on the gas. Sure, this is a strong storm, but by now, we should be all seasoned veterans with snow, wind AND winter.

So what's the scoop?

• Storm start-up still looks like Saturday afternoon. We'll still be able to get around and the amounts will be light through midnight - in fact, we may even mix  from Boston to the South Shore. (Cape sees rain.)
• After midnight, the storm will get a little meatier. Snow intensity will increase into Sunday morning.
• Heavy snow through Sunday morning.
• Tapering to flurries by mid afternoon on Sunday

There is a lot of water being thrown around in the atmosphere, and with marginally cold temps, this will result in a heavy, wet snow in many spots. Even in Worcester county, it will make for good snowballs and snowpeople. On the South Shore, it will cake to the trees and power lines - so there might be more power outages.

Coastal flooding looks to fall in the minor to moderate category. This isn't a humongous storm, so the fetch of water along the coast (attributed to the east/northeast wind) won't be tremendous. Nonetheless, we're watching the Sunday morning high tide around 10am for splashover and inundated shore roads.

We'll be here every step of the way.

Stay with 7Weather.

Pete

Just In Time

Posted by Chris Lambert

Summer officially starts Friday at 1:04 A.M., and Mother Nature's sending in summer weather for us just in time.  Mid to late June averages highs near 80 degrees, and we'll be there temperature-wise over the next few days.  Mostly dry too!

That's A Wrap--I Think

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

I hope I'm not jinxing us with this statement.."The recent wet pattern is over....onto sunshine & a more summer- like pattern.." The last time someone from 7 weather called a pattern change too soon we got a blizzard and 3 subsequent nor'easters (looking at you Pete!!--LOL). We don't have to worry about any blizzards or nor'easters but one never knows in the new world order.

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.