Thursday July 25 2024 Forecast (7:18AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (JULY 25-29)

One more unsettled-ish day today with high humidity as a cold front approaches and moves across the region. This front is not going to have a lot of ability to kick off much in the way of shower and thunderstorm activity, despite the high humidity, as conditions upstairs are not great to support sustained activity. So we’ll just be dealing with the lingering effect of a marine layer with some patchy fog and drizzle under a general overcast this morning, then lots of clouds with a chance of a few passing showers and a low chance of a thunderstorm this afternoon to evening. After the front goes by, in comes a drier air mass from Canada, and high pressure builds in for great weather Friday through the weekend! Enjoy! By Monday the high slides offshore enough to allow a little hotter weather in, with slightly higher humidity at that time, but nothing extreme.

TODAY: Mainly cloudy with areas of fog and patchy drizzle this morning. Mostly cloudy to partly sunny this afternoon with isolated showers and a slight chance of a thunderstorm. Highs 78-85, coolest South Coast. Dew point nudges up around 70. Wind variable up to 10 MPH becoming SW 5-15 MPH.

TONIGHT: Lots of clouds and a lingering shower or thunderstorm possible early, especially east of I-95 and south of I-90, then a clearing trend. Patchy fog forms in lower elevations. Lows 65-72. Dew point lowers through 60s. Wind SW up to 10 MPH shifting to NW, a few higher gusts possible.

FRIDAY: Sun and passing clouds. Highs 80-87. Dew point falling to 60 or lower. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 61-68. Dew point 60 or lower. Wind NW to variable under 10 MPH.

SATURDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 80-87, coolest coastal areas. Dew point sub-60. Wind N to E up to 10 MPH.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 61-68. Dew point sub-60. Wind N under 10 MPH.

SUNDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 82-89 but cooler in some coastal locations. Dew point rising to lower 60s. Wind variable up to 10 MPH with coastal sea breezes developing.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Patchy interior lower elevation fog. Lows 63-70, warmest urban areas. Dew point lower to middle 60s. Wind SW up to 10 MPH.

MONDAY: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy. Highs 84-91. Dew point middle to upper 60s. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (JULY 30 – AUGUST 3)

Next week’s pattern features warm to hot, humid weather, and generally dry conditions in terms of shower and thunderstorm chances, which will be very limited and mainly around August 1 and/or 2. The heat is not expected to be extreme.

DAYS 11-15 (AUGUST 4-8)

A couple episodes where showers and thunderstorms can occur, but the overall pattern will continue to be rain-free and seasonably warm / moderately humid with a westerly flow aloft and high pressure in control much of the time.

58 thoughts on “Thursday July 25 2024 Forecast (7:18AM)”

    1. Deceiving.
      It did NOT bounce off the island like a pinball.
      It performed a loop that is TYPICAL.

      I freaking hate the media..HAHAHA

      1. Oh believe me, I understand that completely. I just thought
        it was pretty funny. 🙂 🙂

        1. It is, and I know you do. Many will take it differently, but I guess that’s on them!

  10. Speaking of….

    WBZ radio says: This has been Boston’s hottest summer ever.

    Fact: No, it hasn’t, and we may want to let the other half of summer take place before we rank it.

    WBZ radio says: Boston has already had an unusual amount of 90 degree days, DOUBLE the amount of last year.

    Wrong.

    Fact: They’ve had 8 so far. The normal so far: 8. Last year they had 5. Double of 5 is 10, not 8. Exaggerating a bit there?

    Reality check! Let’s tell it like it is.

    1. At this point I do not trust ANY media. It doesn’t mean I don’t respect journalists or some news outlets. But almost all of the supposed “reporting” out there is infused with either bias or intentional sensationalism or a combination of both.

      And don’t get me started on editorials in which opinion writers can’t seem to ever place themselves in the shoes of the other side. The slant is not only bleeding obvious, it becomes a self-righteous “I am right, you are wrong” mentality. I’m okay with opinions. But I think every opinion piece should grant the opposing views its due.

      I like my news dry, sort of like my wine. I don’t like it spicy, sweet or sour.

      My kids `accuse’ me in a friendly way of liking boring things. I’m fine with that.

      1. It’s so tiring.
        There are still a few aspects of listening to news on the radio that I like and a few personalities that I like, but the news in general, it was just so overdone.

        WBZ was great until they were bought by iheartradio.

        1. I also liked WBZ a lot before.

          Quick weather-related story. I returned to Boston more or less permanently in the summer of 1995. The winter of 1995-96 was quite special. It was cold and very snowy. I listened to WBZ on the car radio as I was driving my son to school that December/January and heard “traffics on the 3s” which for several weeks I thought was “traffic on the freeze.” I was puzzled by why they would reference a “freeze” when doing the BZ copter (remember Joe Morgan, who recently passed away) reports. But I looked around and I’m telling you in early January Brookline looked like Siberia: Huge amounts of snow, the largest icicles everywhere and everything looked frozen including the permanent glaze of ice and snow on the roads. So the word “freeze” made sense until it finally dawned on me that they were saying “3s” not “freeze.”

          Keep in mind that with a London accent, which I had been so accustomed to hearing prior to coming back to Boston, “freeze” and “3s” are one and the same. Many Londoners do not pronounce the “th” in “3s.” Instead it’s an “f.”

      2. I agree about not trusting media, Joshua. Doesn’t matter whether left or right media Either. There are some good bias rating and fact checking sites. Both have been regulars for me.

    3. MORE than a couple!!

      not bad for: conditions upstairs are not great to support sustained activity.

  15. Thanks, TK!

    I got a text from a relative in Mansfield (MA) that they can hear thunder in the distance.

  17. Some rain here, but nothing much yet, We shall see,
    NO thunder that I can hear anyway. 🙂

  18. Very light rain here. Enough to whet the appetite of the now browning grass but also leave it frustrated if nothing substantial comes down from the heavens.

  20. Trends are a little “less hot” for next week. We’ll see if that continues.

      1. I don’t think we get too many middle to upper 70s for dp’s. 🙂

        And considering there has been some advertising of a 5-day heatwave that I highly doubt will come to be, it’s definitely a better outlook in terms of the heat/humidity combo than a couple days ago. And who said the trend is even done? Some guidance has changed CONSIDERABLY for Monday. If that’s right, forget near 90. 😉

        Global guidance approximiate high temp forecasts for Boston for Monday..

        GFS: 73
        Canadian: 76
        Euro: 76

        Definitely not a contender for a heatwave contribution there. 😉

        1. I’ll hold you to the dew point forecast. I will not be surprised to see middle 70s. 🙂 We shall see.

  22. Cold front passed Woburn around 4:30 p.m.
    Since then we’ve had a notable shift and pick up in the wind, and the dew point has started to fall. It’s already sub-60 in Worcester with wind gusts above 20 MPH there from the west.

    We’d likely have had quite the line of powerful convection with probably a lot of severe weather had the atmosphere been a little more supportive than it was.

  24. I have to say, while it was not a “big” event, the activity with the cold front was definitely more impressive than I pictured it being when I wrote this morning’s update.

  25. The line went over us. But it was a dry line here. 0.06. And about 8 miles away in north uxbridge It produced 0.73. I was out and about and could see rock runoff in the road and twigs down.

    81 / 59 now.

  26. The high clouds streaming up the back side of the front may end up contributing to a really nice sunset in parts of the region if they do this for another 2 1/2 hours.

  27. Not even 2 weeks after the European Championship final, soccer clubs across Europe are playing competitive playoffs for entry into the Champions and Europa Leagues. The team I root for, Ajax (Amsterdam), beat a Serbian team and it looks like it will face the Greek club Panathinaikos in the next round. Shortly after that the 10 month long regular season begins. Essentially there is no off season for these players. I laugh uncontrollably when I hear NFL players talk about the grind of a “long season.”

    1. They are workhorses.

      I get into the Olympic tournaments (both mens & womens) quite a bit, but then again I am an Olympics junkie. I follow table tennis and badminton too, along with every other sport during these weeks. 🙂

  28. Dew point at Logan is down 12 degrees over the last 4 hours. Drier air has arrived.

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