Monday April 22 2024 Forecast (7:37AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 22-26)

We’re going to have a cool and fairly quiet 5-day period with only one unsettled interruption between 2 pairs of fair weather days. We start with high pressure bringing lots of sun and cool weather for today, Earth Day, the third consecutive Fabulous Monday, a streak that started back on Solar Eclipse Day April 8 and continued with last Monday’s Patriots Day holiday. High pressure overhead brings us a clear and chilly night tonight, but a significant rebound tomorrow (a big diurnal or difference between early morning low and afternoon high temps). Clouds arrive tomorrow night with a weak warm front passing by overnight, and during Wednesday we’ll have a cloudy morning and midday with rain showers aplenty, as a cold front heads across the region. The speed of this system is such that we should see the wet weather come to an end in the afternoon and some partial clearing to follow later on in the day. Another shot of chilly air arrives that night through Thursday night, along with plenty of wind through Thursday, a day that will feature sun and passing clouds. High pressure building back over the region on Friday will mean less wind, more sun, a cold start and a milder afternoon, similar to Tuesday.

TODAY: Sunny. Highs 52-59. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

TONIGHT: Clear. Lows 32-39. Wind W up to 10 MPH.

TUESDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 57-64, coolest coast. Wind variable up to 10 MPH with coastal sea breezes developing.

TUESDAY NIGHT: Increasing clouds. Lows 40-47. Wind SE-S up to 10 MPH.

WEDNESDAY: Cloudy with rain showers likely through midday. Breaking clouds late-day. Highs 56-63. Wind S 5-15 MPH, shifting to W by late-day.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 38-45. Wind W to NW 10-20 MPH.

THURSDAY: Partly sunny. Highs 48-55. Wind NW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Clearing. Lows 33-40. Wind N under 10 MPH.

FRIDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 55-62, coolest coast. Wind N to variable up to 10 MPH with coastal sea breezes developing.

DAYS 6-10 (APRIL 27 – MAY 1)

Fair weather to start the April 27-28 weekend as the next trough doesn’t approach / arrive until April 28, and even then its timing may be slow enough that we get through the weekend without much wet weather threat. Changeable / unsettled as a trough and a couple surface lows / frontal systems will be in the area during the April 29 through May 1 period. Confidence is not high enough to forecast this in detail this far in advance.

DAYS 11-15 (MAY 2-6)

Overall pattern looks dry. Trends milder earlier period, cooler later period.

65 thoughts on “Monday April 22 2024 Forecast (7:37AM)”

  7. Watched a great movie over the weekend: Bob Marley One Love!
    It costs $20, but it was well worth it. Great movie.

  11. Thanks, TK

    Happy Pesach to all celebrating with family and friends starting tonight!

    Happy Earth Day! My word of the day is La Tierra, Earth in Spanish!

    On the way to work this morning, I played this tongue-in-cheek tune from The Talking Heads from 1987-88, (Nothing But) Flowers, as a soundtrack to Earth Day.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twY8YQYDBE

  13. Pretty cold airmass overhead today.

    Summit of Mt Washington is 5F.

    Dps falling into the teens.

    Full sun and its only in the mid 40s as of 10 am.

  14. CF, that Talking Heads tune from 1988 is a great, prescient Earth Day tune. Sure, the first Earth Day was in 1970 and consciousness about the environment began to build during the 70s and 80s, but it didn’t enter the mainstream (things like everyday recycling) until later on. Nor were lifestyle changes things that ordinary folks talked about much back then.

    As a person who ditched my old car and may never get another car again, I can relate to David Byrne. https://davidbyrne.com/explore/bicycle-diaries

    Byrne practically invented world music, starting in the late 70s. One of my favorite tracks that features a wide range of instruments and an array of music that pleases the palette of people in multiple continents is Mr. Jones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuJQY6fDtOI

    By the way, I am a car aficionado. It’s just that I find owning one in the city is both a tremendous burden and environment-unfriendly. Different story, of course, if one lives outside the city.

  15. Captain, sadly, I do not remember that song. But I was busy raising three kids in the 80s so missed a lot of its music.

    Joshua, we were driving to Charleston in April 1991 when McDonald’s was giving away pine tree saplings for earth day. Our kids babied their trees to present to their Nonna and Nonno. I have no memory of what became of the trees but always thought it was a great idea to get kids interested in their earth My kids and I wrote to McD not long ago to suggest they repeat the idea.

    https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/article/lasting-legacy.html

  16. Joshua,

    Your great video of Stevie Wonder reminded me of a video I found of Stevie live in Paris in 2010 when Prince suddenly came on stage for “Superstition”. Based on the reaction of the players and crew on stage at the beginning of the song, they did not know he was coming on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GowpepVASg4

    2. Great video. Has me smiling. And I do know that song I never see Stevie wonders name but think of fingertips. I’m betting 1963. It was the year I got my zenith transistor and my love for music was born.

  17. Vicki, I like the story about the pine tree saplings.

    By the way, there’s an ancient Jewish holiday which includes the planting of new trees. It’s celebrated in January/February and is called Tu Bishvat (I could be misspelling this).

  18. Vicki mentioned Zenith radios. They were indestructible. My mother owned one which had shortwave as well as AM and FM. She listened to it from the 1960s until the 2000s. I also listened to it. When I was in school as a child and teenager and had a sick day, I’d get my Mom’s radio and listen to it all day. I was especially intrigued by the short wave broadcasts from faraway places like London, Peking, Moscow, Tirana and Cape Town.

    1. Never had a Zenith radio (Not that I can remember anyway),
      but our first color TV was a zenith and we loved it until it got zapped by lightning!!! 🙂 🙂
      Then it was Sony and others and now Samsung. 🙂

        1. Lightning struck the downspout on the house and must have sent a surge, because it went out immediately with the lightning strike. 🙂

    2. This was my transistor. Or pretty much like it. A group of friends and I would often walk from Belmont to either the banks of the Charles or Harvard square listening to WMEX as we walked.

      https://ibb.co/kKy7Q9D

  19. Another big name was klh. My first stereo…also 1963…was a KLH. The speakers were lost over time but my son swears by the sound of vinyl and now powers new speakers with the now 60 year old stereo. Amazing how things used to be built to last

      1. Wow. That’s awesome. I’ll tell my son. I’ll see if I can find a pic of the unit I had.

          1. I got the (21? ) as a high school graduation present— the mid-sized speakers, not the big ones. We bought some reconditioned bigger speakers early in our marriage, and they’re doing fine.

  22. Besides Zenith there were many other American brands which were quite popular in my youth, including Magnavox (later purchased by the Dutch manufacturer Philips), Marantz, RCA, Realistic (part of Radio Shack).

    Who remembers Heathkit? The company made consumer electronics, such as stereo systems. Bose did, too, in Framingham.

    Gosh, we had many factories back then. Polaroid cameras were made locally, including the famous Land camera. GM made Oldsmobiles (Cutlasses, among others) in Framingham. GE manufactured appliances just north of Boston.

    U.S.-made turntables can still be found, including these 2 companies:
    https://uturnaudio.com/
    https://www.vpiindustries.com/products

    1. My Uncle worked for Polaroid. He brought the Polaroid Land Camera Home Over to our house. This was in the early 50’s and He used to take all sorts of photos and show us how it worked. It was pretty cool.

      1. So fun. My dad’s company moved them to Waltham. He was given their SX70 instant camera. I still have it.

    2. Joshua KLH that Jean and I mentioned above was an American company. I think started in Cambridge

      I have a Sonos sound system throughout my house. It is a CA company. It’s a newer company and has exceptional customer service as well as a product. I prefer its system to Bose.

  25. Nice touch having Laday Gaga join Mick on the 1st tune!!!

    Here is the complete 2nd song.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMnq_MQmsls

    This one is really good, imho. Of course I have been a fan of them since the early 60s. I was a Stones fan while all my friends were Beatles fans.

    I saw the Stones at the old Boston Garden in 1965!!

  26. Stunning day. I found a good book so am on deck listening. Breeze is a tad cool. But ground is still cold so suspect that helps.

      1. We made it to a touch more than 55. I was just out with the trash and the SUN made it most comfortable despite the cool temperature. 🙂

    1. Oh my. Well that brings back memories. Nice mustang. Maybe 67 fastback. Although scoop throws me a bit. Not as cool as my 69 Mach I though. 🙂 🙂 🙂

    1. Evidently the umpire said he didn’t care who said what, apparently it was a fan who said the magic words and not Boone. Umpires can be so darn stubborn.

      3. That ump has had issues before. He needs to go. Most of them do. Time for robots. 😉

  30. B’s 2-1 after 1st. Zacha with a marvelous pass to Pasta who put it in with less than 10 seconds to go in the period.

    1. We let them back in! Now gotta win on the road (which they can) and no sweep (which I don’t care). Just gotta get the next one right back. 🙂

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