Friday April 8 2022 Forecast (7:30AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 8-12)

Low pressure moving across the region early this morning has produce showers and in some cases thunderstorms, which were quite potent on the MA South Coast up to the South Shore. While the heaviest activity has now moved offshore and is racing away into the Gulf of Maine (as of the time of this writing) we’ll still have some lingering shower activity around with patches of fog as well until the low pressure area gets north of our latitude. At that time, a drying westerly air flow will replace the damp easterly one. Improvement comes by midday, and the afternoon will be quite nice overall, including being rather mild in comparison to the last couple days. All we have to watch for is a pop up shower that is possible, especially over interior locations, later in the afternoon through the early evening hours. Our weekend will be so-so, but far from what we have just gone through. Upper level low pressure has to cross the region from west to east. Saturday, while we are still on the eastern side of this low, we’re quite vulnerable to showery weather especially as another surface low forms and scoots through the region. The timing for showers looks highest in the morning and midday hours, and we should see some improvement after. Sunday, the shower threat is still there, but lower, and focused on afternoon, with the cold pool of air associated with the upper low still over us. I’ve doubted previous medium range forecasts for a flip to just fair and warm weather by early next week, and this doubt remains in force. Yes, it looks better both Monday & Tuesday with small areas of high pressure in control, but between them a disturbance, likely the first in a series, will move through with some unsettled weather Monday night. This timing is obviously not set in stone – but looks this way at this time.

TODAY: Cloudy morning with areas of fog, scattered showers, and isolated thunderstorms. Sun/cloud mix afternoon with a slight chance of a shower. Highs 58-65, coolest South Coast. Wind E to variable 5-15 MPH early becoming W 5-15 MPH with higher gusts.

TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 38-45. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy with scattered to numerous showers morning-midday, then partly cloudy. Highs 56-63. Wind SW 5-15 MPH shifting to W.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 38-45. Wind W 5-15 MPH, shifting to NW.

SUNDAY: Partly sunny. Isolated showers mainly afternoon. Highs 51-58. Wind NW 10-20 MPH, higher gusts.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 38-45. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 55-62. Wind variable up to 10 MPH, coastal sea breezes possible.

MONDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers. Lows 43-50. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

TUESDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 54-61. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (APRIL 13-17)

We’ll be near a boundary zone between chilly Canadian air and warmer air in much of the US Mid Atlantic and Southeast. Where have we heard this before? It’s going to be difficult to pin down details, but right now I’d put the odds at fair weather highest at both ends of this forecast period and odds of unsettled weather highest in the middle, however the entire period may be vulnerable to unsettled weather and certainly some temperature variability. There will be a lot of fine-tuning to do with this forecast.

DAYS 11-15 (APRIL 18-22)

Very low confidence forecast. Expecting an overall zonal flow pattern with a couple minor disturbances bringing brief rainfall threats in a regime of mostly dry weather and seasonable though slightly variable temperatures.

39 thoughts on “Friday April 8 2022 Forecast (7:30AM)”

  1. Thanks, TK

    A few thunderboomers around 4:30.
    0.58″ since midnight at the East Taunton airport.
    I heard the DJ on Ocean 104.7 say that there was 1.6″ in thunderstorms on the Lower Cape…didn’t hear the town.

    1. Came through our neck of the woods a bit later. 🙂

      Hope all is well Captain !!

      April break very needed 🙂

      1. You ain’t kiddin’, amigo. In the words of Jackson Browne, “Runnin’ On Empty!”

        Extremely busy week this past week with mid-semester exams and grades due. Can’t believe we’re in Quarter Four! Last day of school is Friday, June 24!

      1. Good ! The 6th graders took sessions 1 and 2 of the ELA MCAS this week.

        They’ve been working hard in math too and I am proud of them.

        I’m out today, sick. My covid home test came back negative this morning thankfully, but I either have bronchitis, a sinus infection or pneumonia. I’m actually off to the doctor to get looked at.

        Got to be healthy for vacation 🙂 🙂 🙂

        1. Geez, you don’t have good luck with your health.
          Hope all goes well and it is NOT pneumonia.

          1. Thanks guys !

            Sinus infection.

            Hard to stay healthy over a school year. I still love the job, but its unrecognizable compared to even 10 years ago, expectations wise. At some point, you just wear down, then whammy !

  10. Get well Tom!

    I had the wrong dates on the DAYS 1-5 section. Oversight. All fixed. 🙂

    I’m not watching the Masters (I see highlights later) but it would be annoying to hear Tiger Tiger Tiger all day when there are 90+ other golfers who have worked their tails off to get there.

    Close Sox game! Yankees just tied it up in the bottom of the 8th which I’m sure made JJ happy. We’ll see if this gets settled in the 9th or if they’ll need extra frames…………..

    1. Tiger is sadly not doing as well. The bright spot is that daughter says they are showing other players.

      1. Glad they are at least showing others…
        But they may want to listen to their viewers a bit more.
        I’m sure Tiger himself would appreciate them talking about some of the other players as well. He doesn’t want this to be all about him.

        1. Absolutely agree Tiger would not like this. It has been happening since tiger appeared. It was a very uncharacteristic source of frustration for Mac.

          I did write to ESPN even though it will probably never be seen

          1. I’ve watched some live on the CBS Sports app. Very good commentary — they’re following lots of groups, and they inform us about what’s actually going on, including details about the slope of the green, hole location choices, etc.

              1. Is cbs following the entire match or just snippets? I’m hoping a Major channel will cover it this weekend. Although, as I’ve said, this is not new.

              2. The app on my iPad — it has live video of the Masters, and you don’t need to have a cable provider (we don’t )

                1. Thank you. I think starting tomorrow that CBS will be covering each day start to finish on tv. Fingers crossed.

    2. P.S. … GFS insists that parts of southern New England have not seen the last of the accumulating snow for the season… Stay tuned.

          1. I will agree with TK in that “elevation” is a very key factor this time of year. We’ll see though.

  12. Not sure if anyone shared this. Could be a spoiler for those watching the masters

    file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/02/02/31500ACB-F58C-44A3-A09D-21058059C4B4/IMG_6880.mov

  13. Sox lost a close one. I followed it periodically on the radio.

    Unfortunately, I tuned into sports radio just now while I was cooking in the kitchen. First thing I heard was Tony M saying “Trevor Story might be a bust.” He went 0 for 5 today. But, Tony M that should in no way imply anything about the rest of his season. For God sake, please go away. Seriously. And they employ this guy to do Red Sox games. He is so absolutely dreadful in his negative “takes.” I guess the even-keeled approach doesn’t get enough listeners or high enough ratings. At least Lou Merloni is reasonable when he talks. I think the number one criterion for a TV or radio announcer should be to have the ability to step back, take a deep breath, and think before you blabber.

    1. Fun game either way. We’ll lose some. We’ll win a fair amount I think. Today Sox came out on the wrong side. Onto the next game!

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