DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 1-5)
Welcome to the second month of “Meteorological Spring”. But don’t be a fool. 
It’s still early spring, and our weather will act much like it ahead. Today, a cold front moving offshore is slowed by a low pressure wave, holding some rain over Cape Cod, but as this wave moves by, the front will be pulled eastward and clearing will follow, but it will be cooler than yesterday with a gusty breeze, in trade-off for the return of the sunshine. High pressure builds in tonight into Wednesday, the core of a chilly air mass, which you’ll surely feel when you step out the door in the morning. Clouds move in tomorrow ahead of a warm front, parented by low pressure that will track east northeastward through the Great Lakes and down the St. Lawrence Valley through Friday. The warm front is expected to produce a swath of precipitation Wednesday evening – mainly rain, but may be mixed with sleet and/or snow from northern MA into southern NH as cold lingers. Thursday, the cold front will sag southeastward across the region. It’ll be a milder day but we’ll likely have to dodge some rain showers as well. The front will be sluggish pushing off to the south, barely clearing the South Coast by Friday. That day will still be fairly mild, but may feature a lot of clouds hanging on, especially in southern areas, even some rain near the South Coast. I remain optimistic about dry weather for the Red Sox home opener that afternoon with dry weather, mild air (for early April), but potentially limited sun – we’ll have to see how far south the clearing can get. Any clearing that takes place late Friday and Friday night will be reversed on Saturday as the next system, similar to the midweek one, approaches with a return of clouds and eventually wet weather.
TODAY: Cloudy start including some lingering light rain across Cape Cod, then increasing sun west to east but still some passing fair weather clouds. Highs 48-55. Wind W to NW 10-20 MPH, gusts 25-35 MPH.
TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 27-34. Wind NW to N diminishing to under 10 MPH.
WEDNESDAY: Increasing clouds. Highs 40-47. Wind N to NE up to 10 MPH.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Cloudy. A period of rain, may be mixed with sleet and/or snow north of I-90. Lows 33-40. Wind NE to E up to 10 MPH.
THURSDAY: Variably cloudy. Periodic rain showers. Highs 55-62 except 48-55 Cape Cod / South Coast. Wind variable up to 10 MPH early, then SW 5-15 MPH with higher gusts.
THURSDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy with rain showers ending in the evening. Partly cloudy overnight. Patchy fog developing. Lows 45-52. Wind W up to 10 MPH.
FRIDAY: Mostly cloudy. Chance of lingering rain showers along the South Coast. Highs 55-62. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.
FRIDAY NIGHT: Clearing. Lows 35-42. Wind N up to 10 MPH.
SATURDAY: Clouding up. Rain by late-day. Highs 47-54. Wind E 5-15 MPH.
DAYS 6-10 (APRIL 6-10)
Unsettled weather to start and end the period with a dry interlude between. Temperatures below normal.
DAYS 11-15 (APRIL 11-15)
Low pressure impact potential early to mid period with below normal temperatures, then a drier, milder trend indicated for later in the period.
Thanks, TK!
Happy April! No foolin’!
The Doobie Brothers to kick off April and your day!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKYQNtF11eg
I’m running an 8 hour Spotify playlist on which every song contains a form of “fool” or “joke” in its title.
Good morning and thank you TK.
47 here this morning.
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Thank you TK and it is windy!
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My one and only April snow day back on this date in 1997 thanks to the April Fools storm.
I had a snow day off from work. It was nice!
I am starting to give up on snow for this April.
Thank you, TK
I’m trying to remember the more significant April snows. April 1 1997 of course. April 29, 1987. One in early 1980s. I remember an Easter snow maybe late 60s/early 70s. But not sure if that was April
I believe that Easter storm was in March 1970. Unfortunately I don’t remember it, not even vaguely. I should though, I was 9 years old.
Now I remember. I believe it was March 29, 1970.
Thank you, Philip. I remember having Easter dinner with my family at Fantasias is Fresh Pond and coming out to snow cover. My Mach I was new and I had barely learned to drive a stick. I got stuck at the lights in Belmont Center….not because of snow but because I kept stalling when I tried to start in first.
Yes, it was.
All storms that dropped 6 or more inches on Lowell in April since 1928:
11.0″ – April 6, 1982
6.0″ – April 28, 1987
6.4″ – April 7-8, 1996
18.5″ – March 31-April, 1997
8.3″ – April 9-10, 1996
6.7″ – April 3-4, 2016
Thanks. I remember all. Is the second April 1996 a mistype?
I wouldn’t count on April 2025 being added to that list, if any snow at all. Oh well.
No typo. I shoveled 3 times in April 1996.
Nope, we had back-to-back storms in April, 1996.
The Red Sox should really order a set of those “Torpedo” bats if they want to get back on track.
Devers: 0-19/15 SO
Not exactly what you want from your DH.
The bat doesn’t matter if you can’t make contact.
Absolutely correct!!
DEVERS IS MESSED UP!!!
Don’t know if it is a lingering shoulder injury (I didn’t like some swings I saw) OR the switch to DH is messing with his head
OR
BOTH
But clearly SOMETHING IS WRONG!!!!!
His strike out ratio just does NOT happen in the MAJOR LEAGUE!!
The Sox have 55 Ks in five games, an average of 11 per game.
AND that has NOTHING to do with the bats!!!!
I agree. And they have left too many in scoring position.
I remember visiting Ted at the old Somerset. If he wasn’t tying flies, he be sitting on the edge of the bed and work his bats. Everything down to weight in ounces mattered. Sure wish I had one of them now.
Absolutely. But if you can make contact, the bat can make a huge difference.
Milwaukee who the Yankees swept gave up 11 runs to the Royals yesterday. The Brewers have given up 43 runs the last three games. The Yankees are opening a three game series at home against the Diamondbacks. I am curious if the torpedo bats was the reason for all the runs they scored against Milwaukee or there pitching is God Awful
Honestly, I don’t think it is the torpedo bats. But that is just i.
Studies would have to be done.
While I know bats can make a difference, I agree there has to be more than one game
I think it is a Milwaukee team that does not have great pitching.
Re: Torpedo Bats
Here is an article from MSNBC. Interesting….
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/yankees-torpedo-bats-home-runs-rcna198902
Ok so maybe more than one game. Thanks JPD.
It seems the bats are considered legal …for now. And I guess there is nothing to stop any player for using them. I’m a bit surprised they are not approved before a team/player can use them.
Re: Sox
Long term I’m not worried about the offense. They’ll figure it out and will be top 5 in the league in runs scored when the season ends.
What should give folks additional optimism is the defense is GREATLY improved from last year. All 3 outfielders are gold glove quality as it the left side of the infield. Bullpen looks solid as well.
Concerns–health of starting pitching (perennial concern for all teams) and the catching position.
Should win 90 games.
Re: weather–I’ll be at Fenway Saturday and Monday–hopefully they get Saturday’s game in–they’ll do all the can as the Cardinals aren’t scheduled to be back this season. Personally I’ll take a raw 50 degree day in April over a 95+ degree day in July, but that’s just me…
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Oh, and Happy April 1st.
Sure , sign me up!!!!
Hah!
Hehehehe. This is very clever
Thanks, TK.
Driest March on record in the Netherlands where just 6 mm fell in De Bilt (where the Dutch national weather institute KNMI is located).
-25C or -13F during the day at Kangerlussuag, Greenland:
https://x.com/OJoelsen/status/1906647333380509746
I would not mind living in a place that’s cold all year round. I’d get bored after a year. But a year of it would be invigorating.
Trying to think of weather related conditions/events/ areas with the name of an animal in it. For example, Horse Latitudes. My brain is not in high gear today. Does anyone have any ideas/names? (I thought about Groundhog Day but that is not a weather event.) A teacher asked me this question.
Dog days of summer? Not an event, but descriptive of weather conditions.
The Dog Days of Summer
The reverse, an animal with a weather condition in its name, gives us the snowy owl.
How about a mackerel sky?
Good one
Cat nights. They begin on August 17, but are only loosely related to weather in that they mark a time when the warm and humid summer nights start shifting toward cooler, longer nights.
They’re based on an Irish legend related to witches being able to turn into cats 8 times, but if they turned a 9th time, they could not turn back to human form.
That is a fun explanation
A sun dog. Or raining cats and dogs. Did someone already say those
An old friend of mine used to say this when it was snowing hard:
“It’s SNOWING like CUCKOO BIRDS”
Moon dog.
Moon dogs, aka paraselene, are awesome. We get them once in a while here, a bit less commonly than a sun dog aka parhelion.
Through April 15th (Tax day):
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov
Might be a bit of a sleet-fest across southern NH into far northern MA tomorrow night…
plink, plink plink! pinkity plink!
March in Boston was a little milder than average and a little drier than average.
Thank you all for your responses re: animal names. A couple I never heard of before!
In high school, I learned the French version of:
“It’s raining, it’s soaking, it’s a festival for ducks”
Watching the B’s! I’m still at it despite the misery.
B’s. Ugh!!
Eric has the brief sleet-fest including Boston, albeit just barely.
Well, what he showed was a model depiction. But yes, it may reach as far south as the city. Basically I-90 northward is in line for some potential mini ice balls falling from the sky. If that happens at Logan, it will constitute a trace of snow for April (yes, ice pellets are counted, it’s “frozen precipitation”.
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