Thursday August 22 2024 Forecast (6:52AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (AUGUST 22-26)

An upper level trough and cool pool remain nearby today, but will be starting to lift away from the region while weakening. There’s still enough influence from it to develop diurnal cumulus clouds, and a few of these can build enough to produce isolated showers, mainly north of Interstate 90 during this afternoon. For the most part and in most areas, it’ll be a rain-free, coolish late August day. High pressure builds in Friday and hangs around just to the south through the weekend, providing fair weather and a warming trend, with abundant sunshine Friday, Saturday, and most of Sunday. More clouds may arrive later Sunday in advance of the next approaching disturbance. This will be a trough of low pressure that moves into the region from the northwest Sunday and Monday, triggering the chance of showers and thunderstorms on Monday, and putting an end to the warm up as well.

TODAY: Sunny start, then a sun/cloud mix. A pop-up shower possible mainly north of I-90 this afternoon. Highs 70-77. Dew point near 50. Wind variable up to 10 MPH with coastal sea breeze possible.

TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Patchy ground fog inland lower elevations. Lows 48-55, coolest inland lower elevations. Dew point upper 40s to 50. Wind variable under 10 MPH.

FRIDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 73-80. Dew point lower 50s. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Clear. Fog patches interior lower elevations. Lows 55-62. Dew point lower 50s. Wind W to SW up to 10 MPH.

SATURDAY: Sunny. Highs 79-86. Dew point middle 50s. Wind W to SW 5-15 MPH.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Clear. Lows 57-64. Dew point middle 50s.

SUNDAY: Sunny morning. Partly cloudy afternoon. Highs 80-87. Dew point near 60. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Variably cloudy. A possible shower overnight. Lows 61-68. Dew point near 60. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY: Variably cloudy. Potential showers and thunderstorms. Highs 75-82. Dew point 60+. Wind W 5-15 MPH shifting to N.

DAYS 6-10 (AUGUST 27-31)

Upper level low pressure may produce a pop-up shower during August 27. High pressure brings fair weather much of the time during the final days of August but watch for a passing front and shower threat about August 30. Temperatures briefly cooler, then warming back up again.

DAYS 11-15 (SEPTEMBER 1-5)

Overall pattern looks quiet – minor disturbances / frontal passages bring short-lived shower chances around Labor Day and later in the period. Temperatures near to slightly above normal.

31 thoughts on “Thursday August 22 2024 Forecast (6:52AM)”

  2. Thanks, TK.

    UK Met Office has named the remnants of Ernesto, Storm Lillian. It will do a typical autumnal traverse over the Hebrides with an elongated (hundreds and hundreds of miles) shield of wind and rain. Again, the southeast will be spared most of the high winds and heavy rain. But there will be some. And from Wales north through Scotland there will be gale force winds and intermittent heavy rain. Today has a very fall feel here. Upper 60s, cloudy and drizzly.

    1. It’s when storms cut through the heart of the UK that London gets battered as well as the low countries. However, this isn’t the normal set-up. Typically, Atlantic lows head well southeast of Iceland and north of Ireland and then scooting northeast clipping parts of Scotland. Practically all of these lows are quite strong in late summer/fall/winter, however, so much so that even if the heaviest damage is well north of London, London is impacted to some degree.

  3. Thanks Joshua.

    Sounds like you are really enjoying yourself.

    My Grandparents came from the UK. My Grandmother had
    the coolest British accent. 🙂

    1. I am also enjoying this weather. And being August hopefully won’t stay away too long.

      I do not remember the concord tornado. Thank you, JJ

    1. Yes! Forecast was on the money.

      I advised them most showers would occur between 3:30 and 5:30 with a potential quick follow up early 6:00 pm hour. After that inland showers & isolated storms would fade.

      Fireworks went off without a hitch. And I got some great shots of those, a thunderstorm to the west after sunset, and the moonrise over the water. Great night!

  8. Not for nothing, but last evening while watching the DNC,
    we heard this loud BOOM. IT was so loud, it sounded like an explosion. Shortly thereafter I received a notice on my phone from my Lightning app that there were lightning strikes nearby.
    Turns out there was one in Brookline not very far from our house.
    Boom Was wicked THUNDER!!!!

    That solved the mystery. 🙂

  9. Did anyone say Halloween?? Oldest’s younger daughter convinced her to put up their indoor decorations yesterday. If all goes as planned, she will help me with mine tomorrow. This weather brings out the best in us 😉

  12. Watching twister 1. I mentioned to my 12 yr old granddaughter that we could watch the new twister as a group. She asked how that worked since there are too many of us to play the game. I forgot kids only know twister as a game.

  16. Strange quiet with the tropics and maybe for a while yet.

    I don’t know if this is as good as it seems at first.

    The earth balances out the heat and cold of the earth by sending warmth poleward and chill equatorward.

    Measures show above normal heat in the oceans, especially the Gulf and parts of the Atlantic.

    Tropical systems, while not usually good to us humans are earth’s way of releasing heat from the oceans.

    We’re releasing not much of it, but it’s there.

    I don’t know if this means later in September, a couple monsters are coming or even later in the cool/cold season, if some extreme mid latitude cyclones will happen, but, at some point, the earth’s atmosphere will release all that extra stored heat.

    1. The transfer still takes place to some degree, just a little less efficiently. It’s also gotten a little more active in the Pacific of late, but still one of their quietest years on record.

  17. JP Dave, rereading your message, both your grandparents were British. That’s quite something.

    Today is a very typical summer day weather-wise for this part of the world. And actually since Wednesday it’s been like this: Windy, intermittent rain or drizzle, some sunshine (sometimes hours of it), followed by more light rain or simply overcast skies, and high temps in the upper 60s to around 70F, lows in the 50s.

    We hyperbolize (is that a word?) variability in New England’s weather. While there’s some truth to it, the weather is more variable here on a daily basis.

    1. If hyperbolize isn’t a word, I’m making it one.

      We often hear how New England has the most variety in weather. It does not.

      Sometimes in the forecasting world people will say (and others will assume) that it’s harder to forecast New England weather than anywhere else. It is not. There are much more challenging locations. 🙂

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