DAYS 1-5 (JANUARY 1-5)
Happy New Year! Low pressure sitting over our area starts our 2025 out on a cloudy, damp note. While a belt of heavier rain and embedded thunderstorms has moved on, and some additional rain lingers as we start daylight, we’ll see this taper to lingering drizzle and light rain showers with areas of fog as low pressure lifts northeastward into the Gulf of Maine. This process will allow a transition from the variable and light wind of early morning to a westerly breeze during the course of the day, but one more batch of showers will cross the region from west to east this evening, mainly as rain except some snow mixing in over higher elevations to the west. After this, we enter a 4-day period of colder trend with mainly dry weather. A passing rain or snow shower is possible Thursday, and a passing snow shower can occur Friday and/or Saturday, but by and large we’re just looking at dry weather and a bit colder each day, including Sunday. During this time, our departed storm system will evolve into a quasi stationary Atlantic Canada low with a large circulation, and this will keep the wind active here, especially on Thursday with notably strong gusts will occur. A very gradual lessening of wind will occur each day after that, but it will remain breeze through the first weekend of 2025.
TODAY (NEW YEAR’S DAY): Cloudy. Rain tapers to patchy drizzle / scattered rain showers. Areas of fog through midday. Highs 45-52. Wind E 5-15 MPH with higher gusts early, becoming variable around 10 MPH, then W 5-15 MPH with higher gusts later in the day.
TONIGHT: Cloudy with rain showers except mixed rain/snow showers higher elevations to the west this evening. Partly cloudy overnight. Lows 30-37. Wind W 10-20 MPH, higher gusts developing.
THURSDAY: Partly sunny. Chance of brief passing rain / snow showers. Highs 36-43. Wind NW 15-25 MPH, gusts 30-50 MPH, strongest over open areas and higher elevations.
THURSDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 22-29. Wind NW 15-25 MPH, higher gusts.
FRIDAY: Partly cloudy. Chance of a brief passing snow shower. Highs 31-38. Wind NW 10-20 MPH, higher gusts.
FRIDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 15-22. Wind NW 10-20 MPH, a few higher gusts.
SATURDAY: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy. A slight chance of a brief passing snow flurry. Highs 27-34. Wind NW 10-20 MPH, a few higher gusts possible.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 12-19. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.
SUNDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 25-32. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.
DAYS 6-10 (JANUARY 6-10)
The theme is cold and mainly dry with a suppressed storm track keeping any significant snow to the south of our region, but still have to watch a system early in the period as it goes by, just in case.
DAYS 11-15 (JANUARY 11-15)
Cold pattern continues. Dry at first, then a snow threat mid or late period. Too soon for any further detail.