Friday April 12 2024 Forecast (7:36AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 12-16)

A wet & wild start to your Friday as a cold front moves across the region and continues to trigger showers and thunderstorms with downpours. Watch for poor drainage flooding during to shortly after this event, which will be on its way out later this morning to midday from southwest to northeast. Strong wind gusts are also an issue, especially in eastern coastal areas, where some tree damage is likely with resultant power outage potential. We’ll “dry slot” for the afternoon with a southwest wind behind the front. A secondary trough will swing through from west to east this evening with a possible additional rain shower, and this will lead a shot of cooler air into the region which will be with us through Saturday on a gusty westerly wind behind low pressure in eastern Canada. Upper level low pressure / cold air aloft can trigger a few diurnal rain showers (snow showers hang back in the mountains to our west and north where it’s cold enough) but the vast majority of Saturday will be dry. The wind will relax Saturday night and Sunday as we lose the direct influence of the Canadian low, but another disturbance coming around the base of the upper low will return more clouds and a wet weather chance to us Sunday afternoon and evening. It still looks like later in the day and further south stands a better chance of the wet weather, but recent short-range guidance trends have edged this system a bit further north, so I’m just including the chance of rain showers for all of the region. Either way, this system will be hauling and out of here before dawn on Monday, Patriots Day. If you are attending early morning activities in Lexington / Concord, it won’t be raining, but be aware that the ground is quite muddy due to plentiful recent precipitation. Weather will be great for spectators of the Boston Marathon but perhaps a bit warm for the liking of some race participants, and of course the traditional Red Sox game will not face any weather-related issues. Fair weather holds with high pressure nearby on Tuesday, but the high center slips eastward enough that we can warm up even more over Monday, except typical cooler coastal areas.

TODAY: Cloudy with rain showers, some heavy including the chance of thunderstorms, ending from west to east midday-afternoon. Breaking clouds later but an additional rain shower may cross central MA and southwestern NH mid afternoon. 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.

TONIGHT: 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: Decreasing clouds. Lows 38-45. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

SUNDAY: Sun dominant through midday. Clouds return in the afternoon including rain shower chances from west to east by later in the day. Highs 57-64. Wind W 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy with rain showers likely during the evening. Partly cloudy overnight. Lows 48-55. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

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

MONDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 45-52. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.

TUESDAY: Sunny. Highs 65-72 inland, 57-64 coast but turning cooler midday on. Wind variable up to 10 MPH with coastal sea breeze developing.

DAYS 6-10 (APRIL 17-21)

Unsettled and cooler weather may trend milder/warmer toward mid period depending on low pressure movement and its attendant frontal boundaries. Showery episode then leads to drier weather at the end of the period when a shot of colder air is due.

DAYS 11-15 (APRIL 22-26)

Another unsettled/chilly stretch may open this period followed by improvement and warming again as the volatile spring pattern continues.

63 thoughts on “Friday April 12 2024 Forecast (7:36AM)”

  4. Thanks TK.

    Torrential rain, gusty winds, lightning and thunder here in Coventry a short time ago. Looks like maybe one more wave of heavy stuff to move through before things improve. 59F.

    1.27” so far on this storm and 22.05” on the year.

  5. Good morning and thanks, TK!

    Very, very dark here now.

    0.50 and 61 when I left my house at 6:30.

    Spring Break at the 1:50 bell!!!40 school days left in the year!!!

  7. All of the lightning seems to go POOF as the cells march Northward. Still delivering the rain, however. 🙂

  12. Absolutely pouring in Boston. What else is new? HTE.

    We’ll possibly get to the average rainfall for April or more by later today. Again, what else is new? This has been a monthly theme for a long time, with one 6-week hiatus late last year.

    We need a prolonged dry period, similar to the one from October 8th to around November 20th.

  16. April is always miserable in Mass.…as I get older, I despise this month even more. If there’s one month that will force me to move to a warmer clime, it’s this one. This non-stop rain is ponderous…come on May, hurry up…

    1. I agree totally and sad to say, but there have been many a month of May that was just as bad!!!
      But April is CLEARLY the WORST!!!!

      April BLOWS around here. It is truly the SUCKIEST month of the year and MOST ESPECIALLY near the coast!!!

      Should I dare say what I really feel???????

    1. That one will DUMP a lot of RAIN!!!

      Trajectory takes it close to Boston, but hopefully just to the East.
      We shall see.

        1. I THINK you are correct. Watching it. It is moving DUE NORTH, NOT any Easterly component at all!!!

  20. Not popular opinion (not that I care). I love this morning’s weather, very much! 🙂

    Eyeing an anomalous cold pool for next weekend or just beyond….

    1. We know that and it is allowed. BUT, that doesn’t mean the rest of us have to feel that way as well. 🙂 🙂

      I vote we eliminate the month of April and go directly to May!

  23. After watching yesterday i decided to root for Max Homa.

    Half the time I type Mac, autocorrect changes it to Max. Which it just did both times. And then I heard he is ranked 11 in the world. 11 is Mac’s angel number.

  26. That was quite a storm . Was on way to doctors appointment in Boston & my truck started squeaking like crazy & had to turn around . I’m at mechanic now . Sound stopped after the rain but it was bad

      1. Tension belt , 3 belts need replacing $800 hit when I’m still not caught up from being out of work . In total 3 belts needed . Ugh !!!! I’ll have it back by the end of the day !!!!

  27. Logan isn’t doing proper precipitation measurements. I live fairly close to Logan, a couple of miles as the crow flies. It’s rained A LOT where I am. Judging from the radar that rain didn’t somehow avoid the airport or create a Logan-hole.

  28. Hot take here, re: Masters. I love the game of golf and used to watch religiously back in the 90s and early 2000’s but the sport is unwatchable now. There are zero “stars” anymore, all the same boring clone golfers. I don’t recognize any names and can’t relate to any of them.

    1. To each his own which is as it should be. I enjoy the course and learning the new names. And I enjoy my memories I’d take exception to there being no stars though. But again we all have our own definition of the word so that is also fair And perhaps one or two surface that I think of as a hero…for lack of a better word. I just watched this and came here to share it .

      https://youtu.be/zVITDvg_G-w?si=IYZ5O0HCPt-Ri2GH

    2. I lost all interest in golf years ago. I can’t even tell you why. At one point I was playing 3 times a week. life is strange.

  31. The wrap-around showers are a little more aggressive than the dry slot. Still should see breaks of sun in a good portion of the region in the last hour or two before sunset.

    One thing I know we’re heading for: The second spectacular Monday in a row. 🙂

  33. Felt like we were being hit by a tropical storm this morning in South Dartmouth along Buzzards Bay. Another cloudy and sometimes rainy Fri-Sunday timeframe – fun

    1. I agree, Jimmy! The weather that came through Middleborough around 8:40 looked like a hurricane!

      1. I also agree. Wind was headed right at my window; and combined with the sheets of rain, it was something

  35. It’s pretty hard to be worse on fundamentals than last year’s Red Sox team. But this year’s Sox may in fact turn out to be worse, defensively. There’s no excuse for that. And blame for this rests with management: 1. Roster-building, which has been extremely poor for years; 2. Cora, who doesn’t have the team prepared to actually play defense. I think that at this point he doesn’t care anymore. He seems annoyed with the front office about the groceries he’s been given, and I get it. But he also appears indifferent. And that’s a BIG problem, especially when the team lacks talent and is relatively young.

  36. We’re about 100-150 miles southeast of Nantucket and finding out what kind of swells are left behind by a decent storm.

    I’ll take this over plane turbulence any day.

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