Decent Day Ahead

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

No changes to our weather today......clouds & sun will battle for your attention for much of the day as temps reach up into the low 40s. The best thing about today (other than Monday is behind us) is the lack of wind....it fades away by noon and stays away throughout the afternoon. Sweet. We hold onto the wind free weather this evening but clouds hang in the sky throughout the night.

Time to start talking about a big storm heading this way. It's the same storm that will pound the Midwest-Mid Atlantic today & tomorrow. This storm will pass close enough to New England to make it a player in our world. Still a lot of details to work out but here's what I'm thinking:

*Drawn out storm....late Wednesday night right through midday Friday. The height of the storm will be Thursday & Thursday evening.

*Coastal concerns with several high tide cycles to be affected by the storm. Severe beach erosion as well as minor coastal flooding. Pockets of moderate
 coastal flooding appear likely---especially at the 6am/6pm high tides on Thursday.

*Wind will be a concern across southern New England starting late Wednesday afternoon and lasting through midday Friday. Coastal towns will see wind gusts between 30-40 mph for several hours...interior locations will see wind gusts near 30mph on Thursday.

*Rain versus wet snow....this is the most uncertain aspect of the storm. As of now I would say along I-495 and points west into the higher terrain of Worcester county is the area likely to see accumulating snow (2-4") with the highest elevations in Worcester county possibly receiving 4-8" of a heavy wet snow. Several hours of wet snow are likely in the western suburbs of Boston but no accumulation is expected (as of right now).

Our weather improves dramatically by the weekend. Thankfully.

~JR

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.