Thursday April 11 2024 Forecast (7:13AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 11-15)

A large low pressure area will move into the Great Lakes and do a cyclonic loop there and over adjacent southern Canada before it tracks through eastern Canada over the next few days. Its warm front will cross our region today with a swath of rain moving through. We’ll get into a rain showery pattern in the warm sector this evening into Friday morning, some of them heavy, until a cold front sweeps through and introduces a dry slot during Friday afternoon. As the low tracks more to the east, passing to our north, lobes of energy around it can help create additional rain showers Friday night and Saturday, but these will be rather quick and passing. A cooling trend arrives Friday night through Saturday as well. By Sunday, we’ll be in a milder westerly flow, but another disturbance coming along will throw more clouds back at us later in the day, but the greatest chance of seeing rain showers from this system will be to the south and west of Boston in the evening and at night, favoring areas closer to the South Coast, as the system will be shunting to the south around the base of a trough still to our east. This system will be beyond our region by Monday with fair weather expected for Patriots Day activities (early morning battle reenactments in Lexington / Concord, the Boston Marathon, and the Red Sox home game).

TODAY: Overcast. Areas of fog. Patchy drizzle morning. Rain late morning through early afternoon from southwest to northeast. Highs 48-55, coolest coastal areas. Wind N to E under 10 MPH, shifting to SE 5-15 MPH later.

TONIGHT: Cloudy. Rain showers likely. Temperatures rise into/through 50s but holding closer to 50 South Coast. Wind SE-S 10-20 MPH, higher gusts.

FRIDAY: Cloudy with rain showers, some heavy including the chance of thunderstorms, ending from west to east midday-afternoon. Breaking clouds later. Highs 58-65, except cooler South Coast. Wind S 10-20 MPH except 20-30 MPH South Coast, higher gusts, shifting to SW later in the day.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. A few passing rain showers likely. Lows 40-47. Wind SW 15-25 MPH shifting to W.

SATURDAY: Lots of clouds / intervals of sun. An additional passing rain shower possible. Highs 50-57. Wind W 15-25 MPH.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Variably cloudy. Lows 38-45. Wind W 10-20 MPH.

SUNDAY: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy through midday. More clouds later. Highs 57-64. Wind W 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers, especially south and west of Boston. Lows 50-57. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY: Sun and passing clouds. Highs 61-68. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (APRIL 16-20)

Fair weather holds April 16. Unsettled / cooler weather April 17-18. Fair weather returns later in the period.

DAYS 11-15 (APRIL 21-25)

Unsettled weather and below normal temperatures early in the period. Brief fair weather mid period before more unsettled weather returns but this time with a milder trend.

76 thoughts on “Thursday April 11 2024 Forecast (7:13AM)”

  3. Thanks TK !

    Relatively speaking, 61 – 68F on Marathon Monday seems milder/warmer than a good number of Boston Marathons ????

    2. I’m just guessing but it seems you may well be correct. I remember one which might have been around the start of whw that was well into the 90s

        1. I don’t think whw was here in 2004. I’m positive the year was when we had whw

          I asked my son his time and heard back yesterday. It was just over 4 minutes but he couldn’t recall exact time. That was 2012 He didn’t prepare but when I was nervous, pointed out to me that he’d just walked the Appalachian for a few weeks.

  6. Thanks, TK…

    My principal’s family lives in a suburb of Baton Rouge and he told me this morning that the schools there are out today because of the LA storms.

    1. I saw Slidell, LA, in particular getting mentioned a lot on twitter yesterday with many pictures of storm damage.

  7. Peanut butter-thick fog rolling in. Visibility has dropped significantly in the last hour.

    1. Peanut Butter thick? Never hear fog described that way before.
      Typical description is: Pea Soup 🙂 🙂

      So, if you have 2 slices of bread, you can make a peanut butter
      sandwich?

    1. 2004 was a tough one I remember if being very warm . My son was just born & I was to go to a new parent dinner at the hospital but our dog was pretty sick & I could no go .

  13. I love being able to follow the Masters live. I just watched Tom Watson being interviewed through a veil of tears

  15. 2012 was the marathon I was thinking of. Heat peaked at 89

    I am pretty sure it was into the 90s inland. We headed to good harbor beach Gloucester and then bear skin neck Rockport and the backup started before we got off the highway.

  17. If I thought Tom Watson was tough to watch, Jack has a stream of tears.

    I don’t recognize many names. Anyone know those favored ?

    1. A good 4 or 5 LIV Players, like Rahm and Koepka, who come to mind

      And then 4 or 5 PGA Players, like McIlroy, Thomas, Scheffler

      And with that said, it will be some unknown who wins 🙂 🙂 🙂

      1. Thank you Tom. I am probably in the minority but am not a fan of LIV. And surprisingly I do recognize the other names. So not as out of touch as I Thought. I did see Freddie is playing. ❤️

        1. Nor am I and I am so out of touch with gold these days, I don’t know who any of the players are. 🙂

  19. I’ve been to every Patriots Day Sox game since 1987 (no game in 1995, 2018, 2020). Game time temperature:

    Above 68: 4 times
    61-68: 3 times
    Below 61: 27 times

    Average is 55 degrees. Normal high for Boston in this date range is 56-58.

  22. I listen to the Bobby bones podcast daily. They had a Never gonna get it quiz today.

    Until 1979, every single one of these was female… but now it’s relatively even split.

    what is it?

    1. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

  25. My father died at 76 as well back in 2007. A relatively “young” age given modern medical advances imo.

  28. If hurricanes are now going to have first and last names,
    there was one omitted from the list.

    Key Pun Cheng

    I have a few more, but not for a family blog. 🙂 🙂

    And I used to have a whole bunch of names suitable for here, but I can’t remember any others. I am suffering from a severe case of CRS (Can’t Remember Shit!)

    🙂 🙂 🙂

  30. One of the reasons I like to talk about weather is that it’s generally not a topic that leads to heated (pardon the pun) discussions, unless of course climate change is being discussed. Weather is also a field in which those who make a living forecasting are always good, honorable people. Meteorologists are not out there to deceive us. They don’t cheat us out of our life earnings. Ever. Even when the for-profit model of TV and radio stations (and online) may cause mets to perhaps sensationalize it’s never meant to harm people.

    Well, in my field in which I examine the economic behavior of health insurance companies and pharmaceutical firms, the same cannot be said. Sure, there are many good, honorable people working in said industries. But there’s a lot of rot at the top, and I mean fraudulent stuff that makes you sick.

    Take this, for example: https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2024/04/10/regeneron-eylea-medicare-eyes-asp-lawsuit/

    These kinds of stories are published every week. Keep in mind, the CEO of Regeneron made >$400 million dollars a few years ago and is still raking in gobs of cash, some of it effectively your taxpayer cash.

    Another example: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-11/unitedhealth-unh-executives-sold-stock-before-us-probe-became-public?

    UnitedHealthcare CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year. And yes, a lot of that is not untoward in the sense that there’s nothing fishy going on (though it does make you wonder when an insurer makes that sum of dough and denies care as often as UHC does). But more troubling are these buy-back and sale of stocks (reeks of insider trading).

    1. Oh I’d say there is plenty fishy going on in UHC. You cannot deny an mri for a person who has tumors up and down his spine and is starting to show some signs of brain tumors . And you cannot deny coverage for a person who is in hospital with sepsis. And not see there is something very fishy going on. And that is two out of two. Then there is the discussion of the many companies who offer health insurance after retirement choosing to sign with Medicare managed by UHC. Not sure who is in bed with whom because CEOs of a feather …..well, you know

      But on the positive side, In my little universe I know of two individuals denied who have had full expenses covered by Dana And one by Brigham.

        1. Oh my. I did have fhe pleasure of meeting some amazing CEOs when we were working with community banks. But for the most part I agree.

    1. It is not unusual to give horses bute for pain. I forget what it is short for. I was shocked when I found out my father in laws dr in Rome prescribed bute for pain too

  34. Warm front has not passed Boston yet. 46. Light rain. NE wind. It will get through there not long from now and the temp will go up a little bit overnight.

      1. Looks like the front is definitely beyond your area. The milder air is one indicator. All the winds are SE to S across southern and western MA. Seems to be just immediate Boston area northward still on the cool side – though this is not really unusual. Often the last area to get into the milder air. 🙂

  35. On my run today I was able to get a good view of the fog from the Cambridge side of the river and how it enveloped the top 10-20 floors of the Prudential and John Hancock buildings.

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