Friday May 17 2024 Forecast (7:34AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (MAY 17-21)

We’ll remain in a general easterly air flow off the Atlantic through the weekend, with varying amounts of clouds dominating over clearer sky, but very little threat of wet weather. It is only sometime tonight and into Saturday morning that some moisture from the east can result in areas of drizzle and/or a few showers. Much of the time from today through Sunday will be free of any precipitation threat. It will be on the cooler side though, especially the closer to the coast you are. This weather pattern comes about as we see a block with high pressure to the north and low pressure to the south. But the pattern breaks down early next week and high pressure moves over us on Monday, then south of us on Tuesday. This is when we see fair weather and a warming trend.

TODAY: Clouds dominate / intervals of sun. Highs 58-65, coolest near coast. Wind E up to 10 MPH.

TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Periods of drizzle and possibly a shower, especially eastern MA and NH Seacoast. Lows 47-54. Wind E up to 10 MPH.

SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy with patchy drizzle and maybe a shower in the morning. Clouds break for sun at times during the afternoon. Highs 60-67, coolest coastal areas. Wind E to SE up to 10 MPH.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Variably cloudy. Lows 49-56. Wind SE up to 10 MPH.

SUNDAY: Variably cloudy. Highs 60-67, coolest coast. Wind SE up to 10 MPH.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 51-58. Wind S up to 10 MPH.

MONDAY: Partly cloudy. Highs 68-75, cooler South Coast. Wind S 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 51-58. Wind S to SW up to 10 MPH.

TUESDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 75-82, cooler South Coast. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (MAY 22-26)

Above normal temperatures middle of next week followed by a cool-down. Unsettled weather chances go up in the May 23-24 window followed by improvement heading into the Memorial Day Weekend later in the period.

DAYS 11-15 (MAY 27-31)

Drier with warming weather early period, unsettled mid period, cooler late period as we have more west to east progression of the pattern.

24 thoughts on “Friday May 17 2024 Forecast (7:34AM)”

  2. Good morning and thank you TK

    We actually touched 60 briefly yesterday close to 6PM

    52 overnight and 56 now

    Ocean temperature: 52.5 (Boston buoy)

  3. Interesting..

    65 here and even 64 at the airport and the airport has a NNE
    wind at 10 mph.

    Frankly, better than I expected. Certainly can live with this as it is rather nice out. 🙂

  7. I think the 12z GFS tries to cook up a sub-tropical system 150-198 hrs from now.

    Not for the continental US, but in the western Atlantic, nonetheless.

    1. The GFS has not been cured of turning everything into a tropical or subtropical system. There will be a lot of forecast false alarms again this season unless they find and make a fix.

    1. I’m going to chuckle if we have a second “opposite of expectation” season. Last year was totally the flip of what would have been expected. My theory: Hunga Tonga (yup, again). That event really messed up the upper atmosphere.

      1. It really was an EVENT!

        I think it might have messed up the Bruins. We’ll have to see.

        1. Aaaahahahaha!! Good one. 🙂
          Well if it did, hopefully the HTE has lessened, at least on them. 😉

  10. Thanks, TK…

    Taking some students to the Revs soccer game tomorrow at Gillette. Just cloudy? Showers? Drizzle?

  11. Neither team playing great hockey. Not enough north-south play combined with some high risk passes.

    1. Some good plays that period. A few things that need polishing. Have to fix those up for the rest of the game. Otherwise keep going!

  13. Waiting to see who will be coming to Madison Square Garden for game one of the eastern conference finals on Wednesday night to take on the Rangers.

  15. Bruins outlasted by Florida. Am I surprised in reality? No. Was I going to call this as a foregone conclusion BEFORE they played the games? Never. But you play the games for a reason. Regardless, the Bruins over-achieved expectation this season. Sourpuss fans won’t remember that, and will just whine & cry. But that’s what they do so some things never change. 😉

    Bruins did well! Sway was awesome in the playoffs, but they were outlasted. The one thing that disappointed me was the lack of shots on goal.

    Regarding “home ice advantage”. Doesn’t exist – not in these playoffs anyway. Through May 17 there have been 67 playoff games. The road team has won 37 of them. That’s 55.2% of games won by the visiting team. That, folks, is “home ice disadvantage”. Numbers don’t lie. 🙂

    We’ll see if that % sways back toward the even point in round 3 and the finals. But don’t count on it. 😉

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