Melt/Refreeze Cycle

Posted by Chris Lambert

What a mid-March day!  Lots of sun (except for the Cape) and lots of snow melting going on.  What a difference in temperatures too.  We only managed the upper 30s at the coast, but hit the low to mid 50s north and west of 495.  Fitchburg came in at 55 degrees.  An onshore component to the wind kept us much cooler inside 128. 

Good set-up tonight for temps to fall fast once the sun sets and that means our snowmelt refreezes into black ice on the sidewalks, driveways and side streets.  Temps cool the fastest away from the coast, with upper teens in the colder Worcester County and southern NH valleys to the low to mid 20s in many of the Boston burbs, to about 32 in the city.   With some marine air lingering around, I can't rule out patchy fog from forming overnight.

Tomorrow looks good again, maybe not a cloudless sky, but we'll take at least partly sunny skies again.  Temps are fairly similar with highs near 40 at the coast, and closer to 50 well inland.

Temps warm-up even more Monday and Tuesday, and that means 50s for many!  Monday still features mid to upper 40s at the immediate coast, but warm enough to melt more snow.  Tuesday brings us rain... and it WILL be rain this time.  Depending on how the evolution of a wave of low pressure forms along this front, we could wring out at least an inch of rain.  While that wouldn't cause significant river flooding, we may see swollen streams from snowmelt and rain, and I certainly can see us dealing with big puddles/ponding on the roads for the Tuesday evening commute.

Wednesday is a transition day.  We'll near 50 by mid-day, but that active west wind advects in cold air late in the day and by Thursday morning, you'll feel the difference.   A colder pattern is where we stay into the weekend. 

This Is How It Starts? Really?

Posted by Chris Lambert

So it's the unofficial start of summer this weekend and officially, the average high this time of year hits 70 degrees.  So you'd think we have a good shot at BBQ weather right?  Not much of a chance today with highs reaching near 50 this morning, only to fall back into the low to mid 40s this afternoon as a cold rain settles in. 

Take the Good, Take the Bad

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Rain, rain, rain...

...but for many today was a day of hurry up and wait. Sure there were showers, but not every minute was washed out. With the events unfolding tonight, that's about to change.

How To Spin This

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

So....what would you like to hear first? The good news? Bad news? Let's start with the good news....

Come On Ride The Train

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Heavy rain is on the move! All afternoon long it was stalled over Western Massachusetts and Connecticut. Heavy pulses of rain traveled over the same towns and cities - a process meteorologists call "training" - resulting in flash flooding in some counties to our west.