Wednesday April 3 2024 Forecast (7:38AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 3-7)

The key aspects of the upcoming storm, the main part of which occurs later today through early Thursday, will be wind and rain for southern and eastern areas and somewhat wind but mostly sleet and wet snow further west and north. The idea is generally the same for this as yesterday’s update, and that’s for the next round of precipitation (after last night’s entering and dissipating rainfall area) to arrive during this morning and midday from southwest to northeast and grow steady and moderate to at times heavy, with mixing and turning over to sleet and wet snow taking places earliest and most completely over interior higher elevations (mainly Worcester Hills to Monadnock Region) and progress generally but somewhat unevenly to the east from there, mostly the I-495 to I-95 belts to the north of I-90. The uneven advance will be due to mixing / changing occurring in heavier pockets of precipitation as they translate east and northeast. These pockets do a more efficient transport of colder air downward to aid in the process. I do think the track of a secondary low will be across far southeastern New England but close enough that the mix/change process can’t really take place further south, which is why I expect a mainly rain event with maybe some occasional mixing in these locations. As the low center moves away it will do so very slowly – held up a bit by blocking – during Thursday and Friday when we’ll have additional rain and snow showers. The wind aspect will be most notable tonight and early Thursday when we have the strongest gradient and onshore winds north of the low’s track. This can result in some damage to trees and scattered power outages. We’ll also have the chance to see some tree damage and power outages in the hilly terrain to the north and west where snow accumulates the most. With surface temperatures a little too warm to support icing, that won’t be a factor, and sleet does not generally lead to load problems for trees, so even where that accumulates it shouldn’t add much to the problems. For sleet/snow accumulation, I’m expecting 4-8 inches in the highest elevations of the Worcester Hills to Monadnocks, and in pockets further east in southern NH with 2-4 inches southeast of there into the the I-495 belt north of I-90, then pockets of slushy coatings to 2 inch amounts south and east of there but favoring inland areas north of I-90. Fast forward a little to the weekend when we’ll see gradual improvement as the low pressure area that is still impacting the region with clouds and a few rain showers Saturday will lose its grip Sunday when we will see better weather. Hang in there!

TODAY: Hint of sun eastern areas early, then re-thickening overcast. Rain arrives west to east, may mix with sleet and/or snow by later in the day over interior higher elevations northwest of Boston. Highs 40-47 early, then slowly falling. Wind NE-E 10-20 MPH, gusty.

TONIGHT: Overcast. Rain, heavy at times, will mix with and turn to sleet/snow at times favoring north central MA and southern NH. Lows 33-40. Wind E-NE 10-20 MPH inland, 20-30 MPH coast, higher gusts.

THURSDAY: Cloudy. Steady precipitation tapers to rain/snow showers. Highs 38-45, may spike to 45-52 Cape Cod. Wind NE-N 10-20 MPH inland, 20-30 MPH coast but may become variable Cape Cod, higher gusts probable.

THURSDAY NIGHT / FRIDAY: Mainly cloudy with additional rain/snow showers. Temperatures generally steady 38-45. Wind variable becoming N 10-20 MPH with higher gusts.

FRIDAY NIGHT / SATURDAY: Lots of clouds. A few rain/snow showers Friday night and a few rain showers Saturday. Lows 30-37 Friday night. Highs 41-48 Saturday. Wind N-NW 10-20 MPH.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 33-40. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.

SUNDAY: Partly to mostly sunny. Highs 47-54. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (APRIL 8-12)

High pressure and fair weather April 8-9. Favorable sky conditions expected for solar eclipse viewing on April 8 (partial but greater than 90% coverage for WHW forecast areas while path of totality crosses far northern New England). Unsettled weather potential returns mid into late period. Temperatures near to above normal.

DAYS 11-15 (APRIL 13-17)

A more west-to-east flow means variable temperatures and weaker weather systems to pass through, including a couple rain shower threats to start. May need to watch for a return to some blocking later on in the period with onshore flow and cooler weather.

320 thoughts on “Wednesday April 3 2024 Forecast (7:38AM)”

  5. well, isn’t this a surprise. With each run of the HRRR, the SLEET
    is delayed more.
    What once looked like 10-12 hours of solid sleet for Boston, may end up only a few hours or perhaps none at all. Figures.

    Oh well, onto Cleveland. BRING ON SPRNG!!!!

  8. 43 here in JP. I wonder how much that will fall off once the rain begins? We shall see. 🙂

        2. As soon as that batch of rain lightens up, it will likely be rain. Would be interesting to see IF it remains Sleet
          when the precip lightens.

      2. I’ve seen SLEET falling at 50 degrees. Much easier for sleet
        to make it through warmer surface temps than snow flakes, that’s for sure.

    2. Already! WELL THAT WASN’T MODELED!!!!!!

      FIRST SURPRISE!!!!! DING DING DING you win a prize!!!!

      2. Yes, exactly. And technically if we were to have a massive
        hail storm in July, that too would count as frozen (ie in the snow totals) 🙂

    1. I’d say 75% rain now with a few sleet pellets. Intensity has let up a little even though that doesn’t quite match up with the radar

  16. We had sleet for a short spurt a few minutes ago. Now some sleet mixed in. Unlike Ace, my Temp is steady at 40

    1. 39 now but not the steady drop ace is seeing. I checked with both the kestrel and Nws and 39 it is. Still hearing a few pings.

  21. Sleet falling at onset is a live example of the “marginal/complex” part of the temperature profile I’ve mentioned.

    1. It sure is!! Didn’t expect that. How will that translate to the rest
      of the event, if at all?
      Likely to go to rain and then later , perhaps back to sleet
      and N&W, snow.

    1. 38 here now in Sharon. Started the morning at 44 and since the onset of precip has fallen and continues

  34. System looks really disorganized. Is a secondary coastal low supposed to take shape somewhere?

    1. Look down towards NYC Upton radar, precip beginning to blossom in that vicinity.

      Today can have breaks in the precip, the main, heavier batch is tonight til just after midnight.

    1. YET Kuchera snow shows next to nothing for Boston???
      Maybet the Kuchera algorithm doesn’t handle sleet very well???
      🙂

  38. Precip has lightened up and now NOT seeing anymore sleet.
    Just raining LIGHTLY despite what that radar looks like. 🙂

  40. Sleet in West Newton. I just got a slight mouthful while walking from the car to my destination.

        1. Indeed.

          Well, were used to 1-2 inches of QPF.

          I’m worried about the wind. We’ve had stronger to much stronger wind, but, its going to be a decent wind along the coast for probably 12 hrs prior to the high tide tomorrow right up thru high tide. I’m concerned about this being a larger coastal flood event than projected.

          1. Indeed, could be. We shall see tomorrow AM.
            Let’s see HOW rapidly that secondary deepens.
            That’ll make all the difference.

  45. The one thing the models, I think, really got wrong 3-4 days ago was the strength of the upper 500 mb feature, as it goes over us.

    3-4 days ago, the projection was for the low to still strengthen past Cape Cod and hit its lowest pressure north and northeast of us.

    No longer, it looks to hit max intensity around eastern Long Island to as it crosses SE Mass.

    At 500mb, I remember seeing 500 mb heights around 519-522 dm three to four days ago, now, the heights are more like 528 dm, so, the 500 mb feature isnt as strong, in fact, its weakening a bit. Thats why the low slowly now weakens as it moves off SE Mass.

    But, that the low reaches max intensity from eastern LI to crossing SE Mass increases my concern for flooding tomorrow morning at 7-8am. In addition to a strong easterly low level jet, the lowering pressure in eastern Mass should also add a few inches of rise to the ocean level to combine with the wind’s surge increase.

    1. There are some gaps for sure 🙂

      There is also increasing lift overhead, so the gaps may fill in with more precip as time goes by.

      1. Your issues tonight will be lots of rain & wind & . I’m hoping I do not loose power tonight as I absolutely hate when that happens . But with the ground as soft as it is & add old trees & wind it’s not good .

  48. https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=gfs&p=sfcwind_mslp&rh=2024040312&fh=24&r=ca_e&dpdt=&mc=

    https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=gdps&p=sfcwind_mslp&rh=2024040312&fh=24&r=ca_e&dpdt=&mc=

    https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=rdps&p=sfcwind_mslp&rh=2024040312&fh=24&r=ca_e&dpdt=&mc=

    The signal is on every model.

    Nothing extraordinary in the individual numbers, no 70+ mph.

    But, the size of the wind field (the fetch) is massive, because there’s a decent difference in pressure btwn the low and the high in eastern Canada.

    All that water is being pushed to the east coast and its established for the whole 6 hrs the tide is coming in, up to 7:40am.

  49. Matt Noyes new website. I can’t get it to load on my phone or iPad but that may well be my nasty Wi-Fi service This was on FB

    “A little quicker than we planned, but it’s perfectly ironic that active weather forced our hand! The new website is live – a basic first version but already a clearinghouse for our weather info at https://1degreeoutside.com. The app is still in build-out but is coming along, our team has already been testing the first beta version. A few videos are up on the site for the incoming storm and you can follow on Facebook at 1Degree Outside!“

    1. I just saw this on fb! I can’t get the site to load either but the fb page is up and running!

  51. TK, I remember in the past you’ve mentioned something big was in the works for this blog. Was what Matt and Danielle set up something that you have been wanting to do for a while? If it is, I think it’s an excellent idea! It’s the future of getting accurate weather information to the public IMO

    1. There is already a somewhat working app related to this blog. And there are other things that I had planned to do for additional usage. Unfortunately I had to put a lot of that on hold with my brother’s stroke and subsequent rehab and moving to assisted living and then my mother’s ongoing health issues that she is adjusting from now. Hopefully I can move back in that direction soon!

  52. Re: Matt’s new website.
    I was able to load that on my Desktop computer with no issues.
    GREAT technical discussion.

    I have book marked that site for sure!
    And I have a feeling I will be visiting often, most especially during
    the Winter and Severe Thunder Storm Season. 🙂

    1. I got it loaded too. I suspect the person who said the server was overwhelmed at the start was correct. I’ve added it to my Home Screen weather folder

  58. I was just sitting in a drive-thru line waiting for some coffee as the heavier band was passing over my area here in Woburn, and I am noticing some wicked phat phlakes mixing in with the rain.

  59. Got Matt’s new site to load up and the layers on the left hand navigation are working. Have to play around with it tonight. It doesn’t look like it’s ready for prime time on iPhone yet.

  60. Raining lightly here. A few minutes ago, when it was a little heavier I saw “some” sleet coming down with it. 🙂

    2. Even up there temps are marginal. It will be a heavy wet snow. Getting dry slotted at the moment.

  63. The thermometer may say 40F, but it feels like it’s 10F out.

    That’s the worst cold, raw wind of the entire cold season.

    Went right thru me 🙁

  64. Norton NWS discussion updated.

    Btwn onshore wind and lowering pressure, they are suggesting a 3.5 ft surge in their coastal flooding section toward the bottom of the overall discussion.

    For comparison, the Jan 2018 bomb had a 4 ft surge and that was a problem on the south shore and even in Boston.

    3.5 ft is a big surge. I feel like most events fall btwn 2 and 3 ft.

  65. Still just rain here. Just not heavy enough. We’ll see what happens when the next heavier batch moves in, if there is one?

  67. Thanks TK! I love how so many especially Tom and JPDave are so on top of this storm. Week 15 of winter – will this be the grand finale of the parade of storms we have had this year? My sump pump certainly hopes so.

    2. T & JPD are always fun to watch indulge in their weather / model watching hobby. 🙂

      Sometimes it becomes its own little show here. 😉

        1. Yes absolutely, Mark too! I only left him out because he’s an Islanders fan. 😉 Actually the Islanders have been my 2nd favorite hockey team since the 1970s. 🙂

          2. Hey now, be easy on them….they are scratching and clawing to get back into that last playoff spot!

  68. Well, that was easy. No changes in the above discussion for the current and upcoming weather.

    Still like the weather for eclipse viewing on Monday April 8.

    Somebody makes a run at a high of 70 (away from the ocean’s influence) April 9 or 10.

  70. Winds at 16mph here in Padanaram along Buzzards Bay but blowing at 35 on south shore of Queens, NYC . Worst is still to come

  72. I think Pete has the colder air a little further south than Eric at this point … basing this on projected accumulations.

    2. The whole issue with cold air in this kind of set up is it doesn’t come from the north, or any compass direction. It comes from upstairs. And that doesn’t really lead to rain/snow lines in the conventional sense. Yes, you can still have a thermal boundary that appears as a conventional rain/snow line, but you can also have intensity-driven rain/snow splotches. For example, it could be snowing like crazy in one city/town, and the next town to the north could be raining with lighter intensity precipitation. This is why these situations have such high surprise and/or forecast bust potential.

  73. Still just rain here. No sleet that I can see. However, temp is down to 39.
    Sign of things to come????

    1. The mode got switched in the last frame. There is probably some sleet mixed in there with intensity, but sometimes the radar will paint it as a broader area than it is.

  77. Just went on a recon mission to Princeton center.

    Data:

    (~6 miles north of me)

    Me: ~900′ , 35F, rain/sleet mix
    Them: ~1,300′, 34F, sleet/rain

  78. Alas, I’ve found something that might be a bit of a surprise factor…

    There’s a batch of potent thunderstorms from northern NJ into the NYC area. This translates east northeast through the evening. Some of this elevated convection survives across southern CT, RI, and southeastern MA, and may result in a couple hours of a sleet-fest with potential accumulation across eastern CT, RI, southeastern MA, up to Boston. Watch closely. Lightning & thunder may also accompany this.

    1. Pete mentioned it would be interesting to have thunder mixed with sleet. He said could reach cape. I’d like it to reach sutton

    2. My son and daughter are in NYC and are reporting loud claps of thunder along with shore of NYC

  79. Still gusting to 26. I won’t put kestrel into middle of back yard after dark. That is where the coyote hangs out most nights. I may be brave and stand in front steps

  80. 36F with a mix of rain and sleet here in Coventry CT. Wind is roaring and the sleet pellets are pinging against the window. We’ve got a slushy coating on the deck.

  81. Includes Holden…. 🙂

    …WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING
    TO 8 AM EDT FRIDAY…

    * WHAT…Heavy snow and sleet expected. Total snow and sleet
    accumulations of 2 to 8 inches with the higher of those totals
    confined to the highest terrain of the Worcester Hills near the
    Hampshire border. Winds gusting as high as 55 mph.

    * WHERE…Northern Worcester and Northern Middlesex Counties.

    * WHEN…From 8 PM this evening to 8 AM EDT Friday.

    * IMPACTS…Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous
    conditions could impact the evening commute as well as the
    Thursday morning commute. Gusty winds could bring down tree
    branches.

  82. Forecast near the Holden/Princeton line at just shy of 900′ elevation:

    Tonight: Rain and sleet before 2am, then rain and snow between 2am and 5am, then rain after 5am. Low around 32. Windy, with an east wind 22 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 46 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total nighttime snow and sleet accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

    Thursday: Rain before 8am, then snow. High near 36. Windy, with a northeast wind 16 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 43 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.

    Thursday Night: Snow likely, mainly before 9pm. Cloudy, with a low around 30. Northwest wind 9 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of around an inch possible.

    Friday: slight chance of snow showers before 9am, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers between 9am and 10am, then a chance of rain showers after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. Northwest wind 9 to 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

      1. It’s really hysterical. Eric and Pete both have you on a 3” line. Either they know something or Mother Nature is playing too

  84. Pete did say the cold air was being drawn down and not being swept in by northerly winds. The situation, IMHO, is somewhat fluid and I think he has been staying on top of this one.

    On a personal note, I can do without any sleet accretion.

  86. Thanks TK

    Very hard to predict these dynamic systems that drag cold air down. Notorious for blown forecasts. Wife is up in Maine and it appears like a solid 12–18 inches.

    MIL is still holding on, has been unconscious since Thursday with no fluids or food. She’s clearly holding on, but it’s having a serious toll on the family. We all are hoping this ends soon.

      1. Thanks. It’s really something, that long with no fluids or food and she’s still alive. Large doses of Morphine hourly, hoping that helps move things along.

    1. Maybe. I think everyone in the know has said worst will be overnight. But truthfully, the same folks had the major portion up north. I hoped for more here but didn’t really expect it

      But take that all with a grain of salt please.

        2. I know you don’t watch anyone else so might not know that every one of our Mets has been on the same page.

          But this is where I absolutely believe kudos for our own TK are very much in order.

        2. Interesting, wind is increasing in Halifax. Maybe you have some sort of divine wind protection. Certainly not horrible here but also not “zero” wind,

            1. Not saying that but I can assure you there is wind two miles from your house. Again, not horrible, but also not zero.

              1. I’m not saying there is no wind anywhere . My statement was when I had come in from the yard there was 0 wind in pembroke !!! No need to explain it any further. I understand the forecast & I know it’s going to be a wind driven rain storm tonight .

  93. Channel 3 in Hartford just reported a 65 mph wind gust in Greenwich and also showed a shot from Colebrook (Litchfield County) where the ground is completely white from sleet accumulation.

  95. .5 here so far. Good luck to those on the coast tonight with the wind and the coastal flooding tomorrow morning.

  98. Hey I got the answer to the jeopardy question for the last name of the person who sang “if you could read my mind”

    And if only you could

    Any one want to make a guess. Although I know we may be having too much fun with the storm. As it should be

    1. Great Canadian singer, who passed rather recently.

      Edmund Fitzgerald song also, carefree highway and more.

      Enjoyed that category tonight.

      1. Indeed he did. Love his music. I am just watching now and was hoping you were. I tend to talk out loud …well, Mac and I played for years so I am in the habit. And sometimes he still beats me ❤️. Anyway, lots of math and my comment was Tom would know these answers

  99. Wind picking up here along Buzzards Bay – up to 25 sustained – curious if thunderstorms over Long Island hold together and make it to this area

  100. https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16&sector=ne&band=09&length=24

    If you look at the clouds/moisture around PA and Buffalo, you can see the wind aloft is moving towards the northwest.

    If you look at the clouds/moisture around Cape Cod, you can see the wind aloft is moving towards the northeast.

    That’s a tremendous evacuation of air aloft that has to be replaced.

    And it is, from below in the column through tremendous air rising. It’s no wonder there’s convection down around Long Island.

  101. I know TK likes hockey and for others who like hockey, I think it was rangers / devils maybe …. Anyhow they dropped the puck to start the game and in 2 seconds, five fights happened. Multiple game misconducts.

    1. You don’t see much fighting in the NHL anymore. But sometimes you’ll have this. It’s a “making a statement” game about the upcoming playoffs.

      There was a Bruins game in which that happened once. I can’t remember who we were playing but if SAK is reading this I bet he has the answer by memory.

        1. I can probably cheat and find a YouTube video of it. 🙂

          Also regarding the Rangers / Devils. I’d be willing to bet that they kind of pre-planned it during pregame warmups. There’s a whole strategy to that kind of thing in hockey. Most of the time it’s just between the 2 tough guys or enforcers on each team. You’ll see them chat a bit before a faceoff then drop them … 95% of the time these battles are used to fire a team up who might be trailing in a game, or “send a message” about a play someone was unhappy about, or maybe as I said regarding the upcoming playoffs.

          There are probably occasions where the combatants meet after the game to ask how each others families are doing. 😉

  103. Definitely windy and rainy here.

    No one is accusing you of lying SSK, but again it can’t be zero wind. And yes Wankum got this one right, but like I said above pretty straightforward winter. We get excited and talk snow but doesn’t mean it’s what we would forecast if it mattered. And most Mets did a great job this winter.

    Wankum actually does a disservice to folks buy posting raw model numbers. I get messages all the time from friends asking about his forecast when he does that. Confuses the crap out of people.

  104. Sleet and 38 degrees now here in Taunton.

    Prayers and peace for your mother-in-law, you and your family, Hadi.

  105. Well, Boston tide guage showing water levels currently at +2 ft (8.94 vs expected 6.97 ft)

    Tide currently going out to low around 1:30 am and high at 7:40 am tomorrow morning.

    With 10 more hours of slightly stronger wind and a bigger fetch, I think that 3-3.5 ft surge is going to verify on a 9.8 ft tide which brings it somewhere btwn 12.8 and 13.3 ft. 14 ft Boston tides are the monster, destructive tides but a little either side of 13 ft is pretty impressive too.

  106. Wind is howling with SLEET pinging off of everything. It’s bouncing all over the place. 🙂

    1. Same here. It’s pinging everywhere. Did you see the HRRR has cold layer everywhere? Wonder if there are nah surprises to come…. My GUT tells me no :).

    3. It has been accumulating on our Window sills and deck. I brought in an Amazon package that was coated in ice.

  107. The 0Z HRRR has a 53-knot wind gust in Boston at 7 am and 62 knots offshore at Provincetown.

  108. Sleeting all the way down to Taunton Captain?

    Wankum’s futurecast showed all rain.

    Are you sure you aren’t just hearing things?

    1. With the heavier elements we have gotten sleet here too. Some piled up on bottom of car windshield.

  109. 0.57 and down to 36 in SE sutton. I don’t know how my rain gauge does with sleet. I do know it is always the same as Nws reports here. Although I think Nws wind reports are very low. I’m seeing reports on wunder similar to the ones I’ve had.

  110. Here is Wankum’s Futurecast for 10pm (basically now). He showed this four hours ago on the 6pm news.

    https://imgur.com/a/miyKMBA

    The verification score on the precip type in many areas is quite low. Widespread sleet occurring where heavy rain is depicted on that map.

    1. Yeah he clearly didn’t get this one right. My bad in saying that above. It was more that it wasn’t going to be a snowstorm here.

  112. Another burst of pretty intense sleet in Woburn at the moment. It doesn’t accumulate much due to the warmer surface temp. But There’s a really cold layer just above. Above that is more warm air which is melting the snow that this precipitation is originating as. Talk about a complex lower atmospheric temperature profile…

      1. We’re heading up to Sugarloaf the weekend of the 20th. It’s pond skimming weekend which is always fun to watch. They are nearly 100% open going into this storm with up to two feet projected. I think despite the warming temps next week, there is going to be plenty of terrain still open by then.

  114. Tom are you hearing window plinks? Marshfield observation is indicating ice pellets are mixed in.

  115. I hadn’t given a lot of thought to sleet. I’d rather snow. But there is something comforting about the sound of sleet on the window.

  116. HRRR model actually had the sleet pockets shown all the way into Plymouth County. It is verifying. Several reports of it there now. This may continue in bursts overnight due to the elevated convection. Meanwhile a pseudo dry slot further N & W may shut things down for a while before a redevelopment occurs.

      1. I said “pockets”. I didn’t say every square inch of the county was covered in sleet. Here’s the fact: There has been sleet reported in the county. The HRRR forecast it – correctly.

      1. Looking at the trail map, the top of Look Mom is about 1600’ while the base lodge is at 1000’. Doesn’t look like it is snowing as much (or perhaps it is more sleet) at the base area.

        It’s ripping wind blown sleet again here. 35F.

  119. Don’t look now, but that “sucky” Red Sox have started the season 5-2 so far on a West Coast road trip. 🙂

    1. Still praying Vicki!

      I am listening to the wind and starting to see posts on Facebook about power outages in this area. Hope our power stays on!

    1. I guess that’s Boston’s last “frozen” precipitation event of this dreadful winter season 2023-24. Oh well. At least I got to experience it firsthand as I got home from work just before 1:00 am. It’s just too bad it wasn’t daytime when I could have enjoyed watching it fall.

      A veritable SLEET FEST!!!

      1. Btw, I did see sleet at the onset earlier yesterday afternoon for about a couple minutes before it switched to plain rain.

        1. A lot of places started as sleet which was a bit of a surprise to me.

          I had a brief period where wet snow mixed in mid afternoon. I did a lot of sleet/rain mixing earlier now it’s just been pounding ice pellets and accumulating.

      2. Unless they have another one. GFS actually shows that potential later this month. 😉

  124. I have had nothing but sleet for hours and hours. All grass surfaces completely coated.

    High tide is at about 7:45 AM, but somehow I am not seeing myself taking a shore walk this morning. Could be treacherous.

    1. Between the high waves and surge, it’s not going to be safe. If you do be careful Longshot.

  125. Saw several lightning flashes in the southwestern sky a short time ago. Didn’t hear any thunder though.

  126. Unable to sleep and wow the sleet is pounding and accumulating on the car and non pavement. So much for Wankum and 5 being right bc they didn’t forecast this. Good call WHW team.

  127. Sorry I missed your question above, TK

    At that time, I didn’t hear any sleet.

    Earlier in the day, there was sleet from around 11am to 4pm.

  129. Lots of school delays and cancellations, especially north and west as would be expected. Some that are open have no transportation service.

    Listened to 2 TV met forecasts so far this AM. Unbelievably, channel 4 did not use the word “sleet” even once. Both mentioned end-of-day wrap around/backlash snow showers. This one was tough to call on timing and precip types in Boston.

    Very windy and gusty here.

    1. I heard bz too. He did say sleet mixing in Boston once but I was also surprised that he didn’t focus more on the sleet accumulation.,,,enough that we are plowing it here. Although I have no idea if some of what he’s plowing is snow on top of sleet. It was definitely an odd forecast

      I don’t know who he is. Jason ??

  138. I am literally living on the rain/sleet/snow line. I have seen 2 types of precip at once and wondering if I saw all 3 at once.

  140. 12.71 vs 9.51 (+ 3.2 ft)

    .29 ft left to rise on the actual tide itself over the next 33 minutes.

  142. Is it my imagination, or have we seen more strong winds in the last several months than normal? I can’t remember a time when so much stuff has constantly be strewn about our yard.

    1. We’ve had some good wind events, but nothing really outrageous. In fact 2023 was one of the least-windy years on record. A bit different 2024 so far.

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