Tuesday October 3 2023 Forecast (7:36AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (OCTOBER 3-7)

High pressure in control with a tranquil “taste-of-summer” pattern for midweek starts to slip away by late week as we transition back to unsettled and more humid weather with the approach and arrival of a trough and frontal boundary from the south and west. A few record high temperatures can be challenged today with much of the region seeing a westerly breeze and a warm air mass in place. A “quiet” boundary slips by tonight and the high pressure area that controls tomorrow’s weather is centered further north, turning our wind more easterly, and taking the temps down every so slightly, especially on east-facing shores, but still a very mild day overall. The air flow turns more southeasterly during Thursday and becomes more established as such through Friday when cloud cover and humidity increase. Friday night through Saturday night is an unsettled period, vulnerable to rain showers, high humidity, mild air, and southerly wind. Questionable is the timing of the passage of a cold front sometime later Saturday, which will begin a process of drying/cooling. Have to fine-tune that.

TODAY: Any early fog patches dissipate, otherwise sunshine. Highs 77-84. Wind W up to 10 MPH.

TONIGHT: Clear. Ground fog patches interior lower elevations. Lows 51-58. Wind N up to 10 MPH.

WEDNESDAY: Sunny. Highs 72-79, coolest coastal areas. Wind E up to 10 MPH.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Fog patches again in lower elevation locations. Lows 50-57. Wind SE up to 10 MPH.

THURSDAY: Sun and a few clouds. Highs 70-77. Wind SE 5-15 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows 58-65. Wind SE 5-15 MPH.

FRIDAY: Variably cloudy. Highs 68-75. Wind SE 5-15 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Showers arrive. Patchy fog. Lows 60-67. Wind S 5-15 MPH.

SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy. Showers likely. Highs 67-74. Wind S 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

DAYS 6-10 (OCTOBER 8-12)

Much cooler pattern with an upper level trough / low pressure in control. Periodic cloudiness and a few rain showers at times, but mostly rain-free. Upper trough should start to exit east with a more tranquil finish to the period.

DAYS 11-15 (OCTOBER 13-17)

Transition from high pressure and fair weather to low pressure and unsettled weather take place during this mid month period. Temperatures variable, averaging close to normal.

40 thoughts on “Tuesday October 3 2023 Forecast (7:36AM)”

  3. It’s not often that I get WBZ anchor quotes good enough to post two days in a row… But…

    “We are on the road today to an all-time high temperature.”

    No. No.
    No……..

    Boston’s record high temperature set 101 years ago is 85°. The high temperature at Boston today will probably be 82°, maybe 83°. A bit of a record challenge.

    Correct wording would have alluded to we may get close to today’s record high temperature. Today’s record high temperature and all-time high temperature are vastly different things.

    Yes, I am justified in being as picky as I am being. 🙂

    2. NPR Is the only radio station that has a legitimate forecast. I rarely listen to radio but want to say it uses a met. I may be wrong. I stopped listening to anything weather related decades ago. BZ was always the worst.

      1. I NEVER listen to forecasts on the radio. They have always been NOTORIOUS for inaccuracy!!!!!
        If I happen to hear one, it general gives me a laugh!!!!

          1. Well, let me rephrase that.
            I meant UNLESS there is a professional Meteorologist
            presenting the forecast. 🙂

  6. Thanks, TK.

    Perfect days for the creation of foliage colors: Warm days and cool nights. It’s beginning to look a lot like fall now, even in my Boston neighborhood. The yellows have appeared, and there are a few blotches of red, purple and orange.

    1. I remember the 1979 tornado. I spent a lot of time in Suffield with a fiend so it’s location caught my attention Not the snow afterwards though. Cool. And I don’t remember the 1841 gale 😉 😉 😉

      As always, thank you, JJ!

    1. Very interesting. Thanks,, Joshua. I’m not familiar with DEVO. It surprises me a bit since it was formed in Akron….being a Goodyear family, it is one of the few places in the states that Mac and family lived.

  11. There has only been one F4 tornado in CT since the 1979 Windsor Locks Tornado and that was in Hamden CT back on July 10, 1989 which was part of a big severe weather outbreak that day.

  12. Speaking of all time high temperatures the Twin Cities in Minnesota set an all time high for October with a 92 degree temp on Sunday. 26 degrees above normal. I believe that was the 33rd time this year they have hit 90. Summer of 2023 will be a pattern to remember (or not considering our wet weekends)

  14. Vicky, Akron, Ohio (where Devo came from) was a surprise to me, too. But many of our most creative (musical) artists and actors come from places one might not have expected. Midwest creativity is underrated, in my opinion.

    Devo’s influence cannot be underestimated, especially in Europe. British and European bands imitated their style of music.

    In some ways Devo was a blend of the German electronic group Kraftwerk and the American punk band The Ramones.

    2. Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder and lifetime member, has written theme and soundtrack music for many things we have heard, including The Rugrats.

    3. Oops sorry. I wasn’t clear. I was not surprised they originated in Akron but that I didn’t know about them. And I agree. Lots of talent in Midwest….after all it is also the home base of Goodyear that has factories around the world ……oh and tires on my car

  18. Tom, thanks for sending the webcam from Utqiaġvik.

    I miss the one they had set up in Kimmirut. I can’t seem to find it anymore.

    1. Sure thing.

      I used to love that cam too. Great cam of the harbor along with the road that paralleled it. It stopped working a good 3 or 4 years ago.

  19. It sure is a mild, kinda muggy October night.

    Warmth of the day, I’m half ready to turn the AC on to cool the house off a bit.

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