Shaking the Storm

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Maybe it's because I've been buried in the weather maps, but it seems like we haven't seen the sun in ages. (In reality it's been just a day...it was out yesterday.)

This stormy pattern kinda gives you that sense of ever-present clouds AND foreboding. While the pattern may have shifted away from weekend storms, it's still active and fidgety.

Watching the last bands of heavy rain push north of the Commonwealth this afternoon. Oddly, the stronger precipitation was able to bring down the colder air and switch us over to mix or snow from Fitchburg to Lawrence and across the border from Merrimack to Portsmouth, NH. I'm not worked up about accumulations as the storm is in its death throws, but there might be a few areas of refreeze tonight in those areas. Elsewhere, fog, drizzle and lighter winds will rule the night.

Our attention then focuses on the backside of the storm tomorrow. Much ado about nothing for a good part of the day, but late in the evening - and the music's seeping through (sorry, some Paul Simon jumped into my head) - as the cold air returns on a northwest wind, we could mix in some wet snow. Accumulations will be slight, spotty and unworthy of an accumulation map, but watch for some slick spots after dark and into the night.

Sun's back on Friday and througout the weekend. Temperatures will be right near 40 each afternoon, and we can let our hair down (OK, some of us) for a few days.

But we're not out of the woods. Big, burly storm will drift off the Mid Atlantic coast - prompting mass panic in the media no doubt - before it decides whether to come into New England. Still a lot to work out, but accumulations would be major, not minor. Timeframe is Thu-Fri - prone to change. What's to fear? Well, the storm mostly misses us now. If  you've read my blogs before, you know my rule: if the storm seems to miss us in the long range, it's one to watch. If they show it hitting us 7 days out, chances are it won't.

Call it counterintuitive meteorology.

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.