And Down They Go

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Numbers have dropped for the storm:

Now before you go slinging mud, keep this in mind...

I gave snow amounts a couple of days ago because I felt there was a need to get out the word, not to fuel hype. If I talk snow, I give numbers. It's just the way I roll. I don't really like to dance around the subject, throw scenarios and 'what ifs' around. We're all busy, so I just get to the point.

We're all big boys and girls here. Things change. Storms have a mind of their own and sometimes don't play by the rules. This was one of them. Track, timing and precipitation amounts were right on. The storm's strength, on the other hand...

And that's where we start the discussion. With temperatures hovering in the mid and upper 30s we relied heavily on the fact the the storm will be strong and generate its own cold. That isn't happening. Not now, not tomorrow, not Sunday. So the numbers come down.

Timeline stays the same:

• Startup mid/late PM Saturday. Light snow/mix/rain.
• Rain gets the upper hand and pushes the snow briefly to 495 late at night
• Cold gets back into the act and pushes the snow back to the South Shore by Sunday morning
• Steady light snow through Sunday morning and early afternoon
• Splashover at high tide Sunday morning.
• Winds gust around 40mph at the coast Sunday

Pattern's still active! More on next week's event...later....much later.

Pete

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.

We'll Take Average

Posted by Chris Lambert

Well, we had a lot of clouds this afternoon, but at least not a lot of rain.  Sure a few showers were out there, scattered about, but hopefully they didn't ruin any plans you had with dad.  Temps made it into the mid to upper 70s, which is close to the average for this time of year.  In fact, the whole 7-day forecast is within 5 degrees of average each and every day.  That means lots of upper 70s and lower 80s on the board.  Not bad being average this time of year, huh?

Happy Father's Day

Posted by Chris Lambert

Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there, and to my dad as well.  So what's on tap for the day?  Golf, grilling, just hanging out? Whatever it is, all and all, it's still a pretty good day for dad weather-wise.  I wish I could say the Father's Day forecast exactly repeats Saturday, but we do have a few late afternoon showers to track.