Friday April 22 2022 Forecast (7:33AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 22-26)

Happy Earth Day 2022. Take care of your planet – it’s the only one you have! Today’s weather will be breezy but pleasant as we enjoy milder air from a down-sloping northwesterly air flow. High pressure building to our north will send slightly cooler air in for Saturday but it will still be on the mild side. We’ll have to wait for a frontal boundary to slip down from the north and northeast Saturday night to bring even cooler air for Sunday. By then we’ll also start to see more cloud cover as well, but the weekend overall will not be that bad – Saturday definitely being the better of the 2 days though. The front that comes through Saturday night will try to push back to the north Monday and may make it at least part-way across the region, and this sets up a tricky temperature forecast with the possibility of a significant temperature spread from one area to another. By Tuesday, a low pressure system arrives from the west with a chance of widespread showers, which by then will be needed as we see an increase in brush fire chances over the next few days.

TODAY: Partly cloudy then mostly sunny. Highs 61-68. Wind W to NW 5-15 MPH, gusts 20-25 MPH.

TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 38-45 .Wind NW 5-15 MPH, a few higher gusts.

SATURDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 58-65. Wind NW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Variably cloudy. Lows 37-44. Wind NW to NE 5-15 MPH.

SUNDAY: Sun/cloud mix. Highs 48-55 coast, 55-62 inland. Wind NE to E 5-15 MPH.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Lows 40-47. Wind E 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY: Partly sunny. Highs 55-62 southern NH and eastern MA as well as South Coast, 63-70 interior MA, northern RI, and northeastern CT. Wind variable 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Lows 48-55. Wind S 5-15 MPH.

TUESDAY: Mostly cloudy. Showers likely. Highs 57-64. Wind S 10-20 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (APRIL 27 – MAY 1)

Atmospheric blocking slows weather systems down and keeps low pressure in the vicinity for a few days with some additional unsettled weather, then maybe fair weather later in the period.

DAYS 11-15 (MAY 2-6)

Blocking pattern potential with near to below normal temperatures, near to above normal precipitation at least early part of period. Block may break down mid to late period with zonal flow returning.

25 thoughts on “Friday April 22 2022 Forecast (7:33AM)”

  3. Thanks, TK.

    Below is a link to an article containing interesting photographs from the first Eart Day in April 1970. I have vague recollections of the day. I was only 5, but my family was always talking about the environment and conservation, so to them it was a big event. It was the one area my conservative parents shared a lot in common with the `hippies’ of the day. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katebubacz/photos-show-first-earth-day

    Saddened at the passing of one of hockey’s legends; Guy Lafleur. Mike Bossy died last week, and now Lafleur. That will be some scoring combination up in heaven.

    2. As the risk of offending, the hockey legends might meet their match in heaven – Jesus saves!

      We also lost the great quarterback Daryle Lamonica.

      1. Back in the early 1970s, there was a bumper sticker around Boston that said “Jesus saves, and Esposito scores on the rebound!”

    3. Thanks Joshua. Interesting that those first Earth Day demonstrations, participants wore…masks. We have come full circle 52 years later. 😉

  4. Final full day here. Dp’s coming up to 60F and temps headed to near 80F. Definitely feeling more spring, even summer-like.

    Seeing the NE wind coming into play at home Sunday. Lovely. Probably upper 40s in Marshfield. This kinda weather at home another 4-6 weeks, then straight to 90F in mid June. 🙂 🙂 🙂

  10. CPC has included a lot more cooler than average on their maps going forward through May than we had seen previously. The CFS & CANSIPS both had this idea somewhat right several months in advance should this end up verifying.

    I also noticed on the most recent long range outlooks into later 2022 and early 2023 that they have cut way back on the scope of “above normal” temps which used to pretty much cover the entire country. There is more “below” and especially more “equal chances” on the maps this time. Drastic change from recent outlooks.

      1. The budding of trees are about as slow as I’ve seen in a while. I don’t know about well inland but I’m speaking about the city of Boston.

      2. Not really anything specific. I have been of the opinion that they were over-forecasting above normal temperatures, and when you look at their long-lead forecasts and then verify these, they indeed have missed a lot of cold weather especially in the western US.

  11. Budding is delayed as my oldest and family drive south through PA. We always saw dogwood, etc by southern PA into northern NJ when we drove to see Macs parents for April vacation

    1. Many trees around here look more like mid/late February than mid/late April. Only the “flowering” trees are truly budding albeit beautiful.

      1. Our pear trees are about 3-4 days behind last year but then last year isn’t a good barometer. A decade and much more is where we see the huge difference.

        I knew timing to the day in Framingham because we’d been there for many years. That doesn’t hold true here

      2. From my pictures this year vs. last year, everything up this way is within a few days of last year. Very similar.

  12. Just looking at the latest CPC temperature outlook would be screaming “snow opportunities” if this was one month earlier (late March into early April).

    Of course given we are heading into early “May” it is time to run out the seasonal “clock”. It has been nearly 50 years (1973-74 = 36.9” vs. 33.8”).

    BOS = 54.0” (#6) 🙂
    ORH = 53.6”

  13. From Eric Fisher

    Unless something fairly rare happens, Boston looks poised to beat out Worcester for seasonal snowfall for the first time in ~50 years. There’s been at least 0.4″ of snow from late-April thru May in Worcester 5 times since 1892

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