Tuesday April 8 2025 Forecast (7:02AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 8-12)

Below normal temperatures will be the dominant feature the next 5 days. Also, a fairly unsettled pattern continues, but isn’t without some fair weather. First, low pressure tracks just north of our region this morning, and it drags a sharp cold front through with some snow and rain showers. Higher elevations of the interior may experience a burst of heavier snow that can coat some surfaces briefly, otherwise beyond some brief visibility reduction, there won’t be any negative impact from this activity. Of more importance today are the strong and gusty winds that set in behind the front, with gusts in the 35 to 50 MPH range, some minor wind damage and isolated power outages can occur. The wind will settle gradually tonight into Wednesday as high pressure approaches from the west and the gradient between it and Canadian low pressure loosens up over our region. But this is a cold air mass, and many areas tonight fall below freezing, recovering to sub-50 high temps in many areas Wednesday. But at least sunshine will dominate the sky on Wednesday, and being in that is a benefit at this time of year when cold air is present. High pressure moves over the region at night then offshore Thursday, allowing that day to be a bit milder – except expect coastal areas to be cooler with a light southeasterly air flow. A warm front will approach our region on Thursday, with increasing high and mid level clouds, but I expect the daylight hours to stay dry, with a chance of some spotty rain at night. This initial thrust of moisture will meet its demise up against the offshore high and a bit of a westward extension of the feature, so other than the patchy rain that night, despite a lot of cloud cover on Friday it may end up as another dry day. Our luck runs out though Friday night and Saturday as a stronger trough down the Atlantic Coast migrates northward and sends a more formidable low pressure system our way. While the timing is not great in terms of thwarting outdoor weekend plans, any precipitation we get is beneficial for continuing to reduce a longer-term dry spell that extends back into 2024. The Friday night / Saturday system does have the potential to begin as a mix of rain/sleet/wet snow in some interior higher elevations – something else I’ll keep an eye on.

TODAY: Cloudy through mid morning with additional rain/mix/snow showers. Many clouds and intervals of sun midday on. Highs 42-49. Wind variable 5-15 MPH, becoming W 15-25 MPH with gusts 35-50 MPH, strongest over open areas and higher elevations.

TONIGHT: Clearing. Lows 25-32. Wind NW 15-25 MPH, higher gusts.

WEDNESDAY: Sunny to partly cloudy. Highs 45-52. Wind NW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 25-32. Wind light variable.

THURSDAY: Sun followed by clouds. Highs 51-58, coolest coast. Wind SE up to 10 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Lows 40-47. Wind SE up to 10 MPH.

FRIDAY: Mostly cloudy. Highs 50-57, coolest coast. Wind SE to E up to 10 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT / SATURDAY: Cloudy. Periods of rain. Areas of fog. Temperatures decline to 43-50 then remain steady. Wind E 10-20 MPH, higher gusts especially coastal areas.

DAYS 6-10 (APRIL 13-17)

Low pressure moves northward passing just east of the region with additional wet weather expected to finish off the weekend on April 13. Faster or more eastward shifting of the system would result in earlier improvement, but that’s a long shot right now. Fair, milder April 14, briefly. Strong cold front returns below normal temperatures by middle of next week, but pattern looks a little more progressive and less wet.

DAYS 11-15 (APRIL 18-22)

Indications of a more progressive pattern – near to below normal temperatures, but more dry weather versus wet weather. Details TBD.

62 thoughts on “Tuesday April 8 2025 Forecast (7:02AM)”

  4. Thank you TK!

    Yesterday’s baseball game was postponed until tonight at 6:30. That should be fun.

    1. baseball should NOT be played in April this far North. I have always said that going way Back to freezing my ass off playing little league baseball in April!!!

  6. Thanks, TK.

    Very pleasant outside … Laura Carlo of WCRB just said, “well, we’ve moved up a degree. It’s now 38 degrees. We’re on our way to the mid 40s.”

    1. How nice! maybe pleasant for ducks and penguins, but NOT humans! This weather SUCKS beyond belief!!!!!!!!!

      I love it here, except for the month of April and often May as well!!!! March I can live with, but NOT April!!!! and Especially NOT a brutal May.

      If this crap lingers into June you will all be able to hear me screaming in disgust!!!!!

  8. Thanks TK

    Not a huge fan of this pattern but oh well. Spending if baseball nothing worse than a drizzly 39 degrees watching little league for hours and they walk 17 hitters bc it’s 10 year old kids. Glad I am through those days. Did my fair share lol.

    1. Indeed. I coached little league in this weather in the late 90s. It was fun and at the same time sometimes difficult to endure for the kids. I also coached soccer in the spring and fall. The nice thing about soccer is that everyone on the field is constantly moving. So even raw days weren’t as much of a problem.

  11. Baseball was mentioned earlier. Yankees three games moved from night games to day games due to the cold in Detroit. There were snowflakes falling for part of the game yesterday.

    1. I repeat! It is STUPID to be even trying to play baseball in the Northern cities in April, most especially early April.
      All driven by $$$$$ I hope they freeze their asses off.

          2. Me. It wasn’t nice to wish someone to be freezing.
            I am really zooing on MLB and not the suckers sitting in the cold. 🙂 You couldn’t pay me to sit in weather like last night!!

            1. What about outdoor NFL games in November through January? 🙂 Thinking they should stop those as well. 😉

                1. There’s pretty much no difference in the coverage by uniforms or the fact there are fans sitting in the stands.

                  The ONLY difference is that there’s a mentality that baseball is supposed to be only a warm weather sport, and most of the time it is. Football is played outdoors in the greatest range of temperatures of any major outdoor sport. It’s more of a problem for comfort than baseball is. 😉

  12. This why I don’t understand why the Twins built on outside stadium years ago. It could be snowing and cold there in April and if they ever to make the World Series I wouldn’t be surprised if the game would not be in the top 3 for coldest first pitches in World Series history.

      1. Well it wasn’t expected to be insane .. though it over-performed in a few spots, both north and south of the city. 🙂

      1. Perhaps if we had received that snowstorm, the south might have been spared the flooding as the overall configuration might have been different?

  15. Thanks TK! Seems like the edge of the Polar front is coming through the South Coast now. It is absolutely pouring out and looks quite wintry with wind picking up.

  16. Thanks TK.

    Hit a heavy snow squall on my way into work today on Rte 44 and 384 in Bolton CT. Temp dropped to 34 and even saw a coating starting to accumulate. Drove out of it though as quickly as I drove in.

  17. We were planning on heading up to Jay Peak in northern VT this weekend for spring skiing. The other TK is predicting up to 10″ new snow there by tomorrow PM and they still have just shy of 60 trails and glades open. Just a bit concerned about the weather Saturday as we don’t want to be skiing in the rain but the models seem to be trending drier at least for northern VT and what falls may even stay as wet snow in the higher elevations.

    Snowing right now on Jay Peak’s new Tramside and Stateside webcams:

    https://jaypeakresort.com/resort/photo-day

  19. Just for the record, last night the Red Sox were 0-9 RISP. That tells me the game was very WINNABLE to say the least.

    This 2025 edition is going to drive us crazy at times as usual! 😉

    2. I believe there was sleet mixed in Quincy as well. The front came through 30+ minutes ago.

      1. Philip I could not even see in front of me it was incredibly intense that lasted less than 10 minutes. It was pouring sleet

      1. Playing baseball on ice/snow makes no sense to me. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

        Also, lucky no players ever fell through the ice.

        1. It’s a good thing you were not in charge of that, eh? 😉

          Also, do you seriously think they’d have played on ice that was unsafe? Let’s give them a little bit of credit, and a LOT of credit for imagination and tolerance. I absolutely love the idea!!!

          1. Of course no one would intentionally go out on unsafe ice but accidents can still happen, no matter how cold. Every winter we hear about people and dogs falling through seemingly “safe” ice.

            Suppose a team decided to play on an unusually mild stretch of days after multiple freezing days?

            Of course aside from that, playing baseball should be played on SOLID ground imo! There are more than enough issues as is. 🙂

    3. I think my favorite part of the first article is:

      “When a version of ice baseball’s rules were codified in 1887, a provision was added to make clear that ‘each baserunner makes every base simply by overrunning the line of the base’ — since skating didn’t exactly lend itself to stopping quickly.”

  24. Yesterday with the cloud cover and wind off the ocean, upper 30s and low 40s especially in eastern Mass was reasonable.

    I’m much more impressed by low-mid 40s under a decently sunny sky this afternoon.

    Quite a cold airmass for April 8th

  26. Notes…

    If you are looking for the NWS / NOAA discussion post, I had another publish issue with it but have fixed it. It appears in chronologically the correct place, before yesterday’s weather update.

    Also, I have posted a piece I wrote a year ago on the total solar eclipse of 4/8/2024. It appears on the blog chronologically prior to today’s weather update. If you want to go directly to it, the link is here: https://www.woodshill.net/?p=18833

    1. Very curious. I know posts that are politically left are mysteriously disappearing on some social media sites, including FB.

  27. It’s a good thing that the Red Sox will be on the road (CWS) this weekend. Perfect timing by the MLB schedule makers. That will be 2 less games having to be made up.

    Play ball! 🙂

  28. Crazy day at school. The third marking period ended today.
    Everyone trying to make up work before the report cards.
    It’s 8:03 pm and it’s my first chance to say:

    Thanks, TK!

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