Dry Stretch Coming

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8:49PM

It looks like we do not have any more precipitation to talk about during the next several days (through the middle of next week anyway) as a large ridge of high pressure builds across the East Coast. Temperatures will warm a little bit for Saturday (50s most areas), but should be much warmer Sunday with a land breeze taking over most locations. Slightly cooler weather Monday will result from a weak back-door cold front, but this front will not be as interrupting as the recent bout, and by Tuesday into midweek most areas will be much warmer. We’ll still have to watch for a coastal sea breeze on Tuesday. If one day is going to be warm everywhere, even at the coast, it appears that Wednesday would be the day. By the end of next week, a trend toward unsettled weather may be the first signal of a new weather pattern. More on that in future blogs.

Forecast for eastern MA, RI, and southern NH…

TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with areas of fog. Low 36-41. Wind N under 10 MPH.

SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy with areas of fog early, then becoming partly to mostly sunny. High 53-58. Wind N up to 10 MPH shifting to E.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Areas of fog mainly over inland valleys, swamps, and bogs. Low from near 32 inland valleys to the lower 40s along the coast. Wind calm.

SUNDAY: Mostly sunny. High 66-71. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY: Partly sunny. Low 48. High 62.

TUESDAY: Partly cloudy. Low 51. High 68 except cooler coast.

WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny. Low 51. High 76.

THURSDAY: Partly cloudy. Low 53. High 72.

FRIDAY: Variably cloudy. Chance of rain showers. Low 55. high 63.

56 thoughts on “Dry Stretch Coming”

  1. TK, somewhere today you posted about the possibility of April being cooler than normal. What is normal for April?

      2. That’s not the average high, the average high for April is 60-70 degrees, is that a mean between high and low?

      4. TK is correct. Per Taunton NWS climate section…..

        April 1 avgs : 51F / 36F overall avg 43.5 F

        April 30 avgs : 61F/ 45F overall avg 53F

        Since the temp rise is fairly constant and proportional to the 30 days in the month, you can pretty much find the avg of the first and last days temps to get a very accurate monthly mean, which comes out to about 48F.

        1. I’d think Logan has lower avg highs in the spring, especially in April and May, due to an increased frequency in seabreezes. So, its quite possible that inland locations, not by many miles, have much warmer daily high avgs in the spring.

          1. That’s why, anyone away from the coast are much higher, I guess like the other day I said to my wife it’s beautiful and was actually at the park in N.Attleboro and it was in the low and mid 60’s, and she said it was crummy in Boston,

  2. Thanks TK
    Another 15 seed beats a 2 seed in this tournament. If anyone still has a perfect bracket I would like to meet that person.

    1. Now, hopefully, I’d like to see one of those 15 seeds win this next round and get to the sweet 16.

  4. All 4 climo stations are sitting at roughly +6 to +7F anomalies thru mid March. By week’s end, it’s quite reasonable that most stations could be around +8 to +10F anomalies……….. Then, of course, comes the last week of March and by the GFS, a low to our south and a high to our north……….

  5. I find it interesting to look at the infrared satellite in this pattern. With it being so warm, even at night, in a good part of the eastern 2/3rds of the US, the “darker” clearness over the land is so strange to see, interspersed of course with the bright white, cold cloud tops of a few overnight thunderstorms developing here and there. I have to keep reminding myself its not June.

    1. i was worried this will happen. I do not want below normal temps for april. But an unsettled and cool pattern looks like it is going to form after the streatch of week long 70s with wednesday and thursday in the high 70s with some areas in western mass hitting 80 possibly.

  7. Not only may we see runs at 80 on a day or 2 interior New England, we may also be talking about snow for parts of New England 1 week from tomorrow.

  8. If that happens that would be vintage March to me where you get a warm stretch followed by accumulating snow. If I remember correctly wasn’t it mild before the April Fools Storm in 97???

    2. Boston reached 62 on Sunday March 30th, then the “transition” day on the 31st and then you know what happened on April 1st. 🙂

  9. Temp is 53.2 mainly cloudy although hr after hr there’s more sun, I expect it to be around 55-60 by later today, have a good day 🙂

  10. After watching Barry’s nooncast from 3/31/97 on YouTube it amazes me that radars at the time still did not distinguish between precip types (rain/snow/ice). I really thought by the 1990’s the technology was there, but after watching other videos from that time period I was obviously remembering wrong.

    TK or others…do you remember what year blue and pink colors became commonplace on radars?

        1. Well the Feb storm bc of time of yr is more likley than April blizzard, the April blizzard won’t happen for another 100 yrs, 🙂

          1. You wont look good if we get a snowstom Charlie. Don’t rule it out. We seem to be going into a different weather patterns after next week.

            1. There’s not a chance John 🙂 it’s fun to go for possibilities, but theres not a chance, it’s possible to get a tornado in Bristol cty in Jan but does it happen, have a great day and as always enjoy ur conversation 🙂

              1. I think the longer we go it will get harder, but still at that stage where it can. As you know I hate winter so I am all set with snow.

  11. I wondering if it’s a record? If we add up all the snow from Feb 1st 2011 to present if I’m not mistaken is around 14 inches, thats crazy!

  12. History shows never count snow out through April.

    I stick to that every year.

    Update will come later.

    Have a great night all!

    1. Tk can you give a list of the past 10 yrs of total snowfall in April ? I’m curious what it is, I do know our average snowfall for April is just under an inch, thank you 🙂

  13. this warm may like pattern is happening for this week. then its back to new england early spring and late winter as the MJO goes into phase 7 and seems to be wanting to stay there.

  15. 39F at the summit of Mt. Washington ! A little lower on the auto road, it’s 51F. There certainly is a tremendous layer of warmth above us !

  16. Today’s AccuWeather Trivia Quiz.

    The highest March temperature ever recorded in Boston is:
    A. 74
    B. 80
    C. 89
    D. 92

        1. I knew it hit the upper 80s on March 30-31, I was pretty sure it was 1999 because my wife was pregnant (due in August) and we were going to Disney World with our daughter, who was 7. Our flight was April 1, and in the pre-dawn hours, a back-door cold front came in and brought with it a stratus deck and a temp drop to the 40s just as we were leaving. Got to Florida and it was in the 80s and moderately humid.

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