Thursday December 9 2021 Forecast (7:51AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (DECEMBER 9-13)

The first kind-of-widespread snowfall of the season is in the books, and it was quite a minor event as it was expected to be – a coating to 2 inches. While only some minor snow removal in some areas this morning, of more concern will be some icy patches where there was a snow-melt / re-freeze. Watch for that if you are out during the early to mid morning hours before the combination of the temperature rising above freezing, an increasing breeze, and dry air will eliminate the icy patches. We’ll have a nice day today as high pressure builds in, but it will be chilly with a breeze. A disturbance will move toward the region today and through the area Friday bringing some clouds and perhaps a brief period of snow/mix/rain, favoring the morning hours. The next formidable low pressure area is destined to take a track similar to the one we were impacted by on Monday, through the Great Lakes and into eastern Canada, sending a warm front through here with an early rain threat Saturday, a mostly rain-free day in the warm sector with a gusty breeze, and a cold front swinging through at night with a rain shower or downpour (something we will have to fine-tune timing and details on during the next couple of days). Behind this system comes a shot of windy, colder weather for Sunday and lasting into Monday as well with a slight temperature moderation.

TODAY: Sunny morning. Sun/cloud mix afternoon. Highs 35-42. Wind NW 5-15 MPH, gusting up to 20 MPH, diminishing during the afternoon.

TONIGHT: Variably cloudy evening. Cloudy overnight. Lows 25-32. Wind variable under 10 MPH.

FRIDAY: Cloudy with a brief period of snow/mix north and mix/rain south in the morning. Mostly cloudy to partly sunny afternoon. Highs 37-44. Wind E under 10 MPH early, then S 5-15 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain overnight, may start as a brief mix with sleet and snow interior higher elevations. Lows 30-37 evening, rising temperature overnight. Wind SE up to 10 MPH shifting to S 5-15 MPH.

SATURDAY: Cloudy with a chance of rain early, then variably cloudy. Highs 52-59. Wind SW 10-20 MPH, higher gusts possible.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Cloudy through late evening with rain showers likely including a chance of a thunderstorm with small hail. Mostly cloudy overnight. Lows 42-49. Wind SW 10-20 MPH with higher gusts, shifting to W.

SUNDAY: Mostly cloudy to partly sunny. Temperatures steady 39-46. Wind W to NW 10-20 MPH, higher gusts.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 22-29. Wind W 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

MONDAY: Sun/cloud mix. Highs 42-49. Wind W 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

DAYS 6-10 (DECEMBER 14-18)

While the upper atmosphere says “let’s warm up!” and we will see it here to some degree (no pun intended), there are things going on elsewhere that say we may not see anything that lasts too long without being interrupted by a shot of colder air from Canada as a series of high pressure areas will be moving across that area and into a position that can push cold into the northeastern US. For now will go with a warming trend for the middle of next week, followed by a late-week colder shot. There will probably be some briefly unsettled weather at transition time but timing and details will have to be worked out as we get closer to that.

DAYS 11-15 (DECEMBER 19-23)

The trends continue to be for colder air to win out over any sustained warm ups, and we also see precipitation (including snow) chances go up in this time frame as we add a little bit more moisture to the mix. Obviously far too soon to try to pinpoint anything specific for any of these days.

39 thoughts on “Thursday December 9 2021 Forecast (7:51AM)”

    1. Guess who woke up this morning, looked out the window, and has been walking around with a smile ever since.

  6. I’m not on a device where its easy to copy a link.

    If I could, I would post the visible satellite loop.

    Last night’s snow showing up nicely.

    If I am looking at it correctly, the irony is that SE NH and SW ME, one area where there was some thought that an inverted trof could enhance the snow to 1-3 inches, looks like they got nothing at all. I think I see bare brownish looking ground.

    1. Interesting. I had watched the radar to see if my friends in York had snow but hasn’t seen it showing there before I headed to sleep.

  8. Good morning and thank you TK

    I have had internet issues all morning.
    not resolved yet.
    this is from phone.

    It was fascinating watching radar last evening with echoes moving NE to SW from the ocean and echoes moving W to E. We ended up with about 1/4 inch or so. Crippling snow storm for sure.

  9. TK do you think I might have flight issues tomorrow evening at Logan due to weather? Flight gets in at 1130pm ( yeah I have a 5 hour layover in NY.

  12. We have a new neighbor. I have not seen him but a neighbor two houses up from ours has seen a large coy wolf on the hill behind her twice today. First was when my youngest two grand kids were sliding down the hill

  14. Ornithologists out there, can you answer this question? Do sparrows like snow? I ask because on my run along the Charles this morning I heard A LOT of sparrow chatter. I mean loud. And they’ve been quiet for many months now. Clearly, these were not mating calls as that would be at least two to three months too early. Perhaps it was the snow that got them talking. I’ve noticed this phenomenon before.

  15. More confident of NO December blow torch. Just brief warm spikes and a lot of seasonable in between, with a colder shot here and there, and a colder trend later in the month.

    Just don’t see anything that can sustain much above normal temperatures as some had advertised prematurely. That doesn’t mean we can’t get a day that is much above normal (like Monday, and like this Saturday will likely be). But some forecasts yesterday were advertising days on end of mid to upper 60s – and that’s not going to happen in the weather pattern we have.

  17. December 6 1945: A 22 year old army sgt. named John, nearing the end of his duty, after serving during World War II, writes a letter to his mother and mails it – destination Woburn MA. Somewhere along the line the letter, its stamp with the cancellation mark from that same month, gets lost or mis-delivered, and never arrives at its destination.

    November 2021: Just over three quarters of a century later, the letter arrives at a USPS facility in Pennsylvania, the circumstances of its arrival and its sender unknown, at which time postal workers go into sleuthing mode.

    December 9 2021: My mother receives a delivery in an official USPS envelope from Pennsylvania. Inside, along with a message from the postmaster, is an unopened letter written by my father-to-be, to his mother (my grandmother-to-be), as part of their regular correspondence during his time serving his country. He wrote this letter to his mother a few years before he met his future wife. It found its way into her hands 76 years and 3 days after it was written.

    Remarkable.

    1. I have far too many tears to see clearly. What a blessing and what a miracle. Please hold your mom tight for me and please feel my hugs.

    2. I watch a show on hallmark movies and mysteries called Signed, Sealed and delivered. It is about letters found in the “dead letter office.” The team tracks down the people who were supposed to have received them. I suspect they would love this story.

      I just called my youngest and read your post to her. We were both in tears. Absolutely remarkable

  18. I believe on this date back in 2005 a coastal storm went through bombogensis and hurricane force wind gusts happened on the Cape.

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